The U.S. Government's Patch Management Problem The Ponemon Institute's 2018 study of enterprise security and vulnerability found that 57 percent of the organizations queried claimed a data breach had occurred…
Syxsense Secure Adds Cyber Threat Alerting and Quarantine ALISO VIEJO, Calif. (September 10, 2019) – Verismic, a global leader in cloud-based IT management and security technology, has released a new Syxsense Secure…
CVE and CVSS: Explained Although many IT managers are familiar with these terms, CVE and CVSS are some of the most commonly misunderstood aspects of patching today. These two different…
Massive Ransomware Attack Strikes 23 Texas Towns Use Patch Management to Prevent Ransomware Attacks 23 cities in Texas were hit with a coordinated ransomware attack this weekend. A research firm…
20-Year-Old Unpatched Flaw and Critical Vulnerabilities Revealed Unlike BlueKeep, which affected only the older and unsupported Windows operating systems, the bugs recently disclosed in Microsoft’s August 2019 Patch Tuesday release…
Why Enterprise Ransomware Attacks Are Increasing According to various sources, ransomware appears to see triple-digit spike in corporate detections. A pair of reports released by Black Hat and Accenture mark…
MegaCortex Ransomware Targeting Victims Worldwide A new variant of ransomware has been discovered, called MegaCortex, that is targeting enterprise networks and organizations. Once the environment is penetrated, the attackers infect…
Bluetooth Exploit Enables Tracking on Windows PCs Researchers at Boston University have discovered a vulnerability in the Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) implementations of Microsoft and Apple devices. The vulnerability allows…
Major Vulnerability Discovered in KACE The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has recently published an advisory regarding an administrator interface vulnerability for the Quest KACE Systems Management Appliance (ICS Advisory…
Critical Vulnerability with Mozilla Thunderbird Being Exploited A rare vulnerability for openSUSE has been released to resolve 13 vulnerabilities with Mozilla Thunderbird. These vulnerabilities can be potentially exploited in browser…