November 2018

Exploit Could Install Malware on Desktops Research done by Tenable®, Inc. has revealed a critical vulnerability in Zoom’s Desktop Conferencing Application. Over 750,000 companies use Zoom as their conferencing and webinar platform. This exploit could be leveraged to spoof chat...

Business Evolves with Technology Recently, Forbes outlined 5 ways retail is attempting to redefine itself. Overall, businesses are experimenting with new technologies, utilizing IoT devices to craft a more engaging shopping experience. But are they exposing themselves to security risks?...

The United States Postal Service has finally patched a known critical vulnerability that left 60 million user’s data exposed for over a year. As horrifying as the news is, the USPS’s actions shouldn’t come as a surprise: a recent report states...

Microsoft Pulls Several Crash Causing Updates The updates KB2863821 and KB4461522 for Office 2010 were pulled from November's Patch Tuesday because they were causing crashes for some users. Is this going to become a regular event? Microsoft had to pause...

Syxsense Realtime Use Case: Fortnite While bored at work, an employee manages to install Fornite on their device. However, they notice lags and the game running slow. Defender is causing issues and interrupting their gaming. What do they do? Disable...

An unfortunate fact for IT departments is that they will, at some point, face a malware crisis. Here's how addressing malware normally plays out. At some point after the infection occurs, usually much later, it gets noticed. Whether by pure...

Patch Tuesday Release: The Latest News Microsoft has released 62 security patches today covering Internet Explorer (IE), Edge, ChakraCore, Hyper-V, Exchange, Windows components, .NET Core, SQL Server, and Microsoft Office.  12 of the 62 are listed as Critical. CVE-2018-8589 with...

Samsung Unlocks Bitlocker Microsoft, Samsung, and US-Cert have all issued advisories regarding a newly discovered vulnerability. A grouping of some of the most widely used SSDs contain a vulnerability that would allow access to encrypted data without the encryption key....

Critical Updates for Apple and More On the same day that Apple announced their new set of products, they released a massive group of updates. These patches address critical vulnerabilities throughout their operating systems and software offerings. The OS vulnerabilities,...