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Most Companies Are Unprepared for the IoT Researchers at Ben-Gurion University warn that hackers have an unexpected resource in exploiting your environment: a Google search. IoT device manufactures set a default password for their devices, sometimes even sharing passwords between...

Manage Your Vulnerabilities As we explored in our Total Meltdown article, some updates actually made Windows 7 less secure in the last round of Microsoft Patch Tuesday. Even worse, some caused significant performance issues on older hardware models. Many industry...

Microsoft Ignores Deferral Settings, Forces Win10 Updates For the third time in the last few months, Microsoft pushed updates to Win10 machines that had deferral preferences set. Windows 10 versions 1507, 1511, 1607, and 1703 have been affected and pushed...

Users Love Ease of Use, Powerful Features and Reliable Support G2 Crowd recently released their Spring 2018 Reports. Syxsense was included in four unique lists, highlighting ease of product use and customer satisfaction: Grid® Report for Enterprise IT Management Suites,...

Total Meltdown Sometimes software updates cause more issues than they fix. Microsoft have made a major error in protecting Windows from Meltdown. Thanks to researcher Ulf Frisk, we are now aware that the January Patch Tuesday update has created new...

Will the IoT bankrupt your business? Research on the Internet of Things is not painting a pretty picture. According to research firm Gartner, approximately 20% of organizations have experienced at least one IoT attack in the past three years. There’s...

What do the numbers tell us? As far back as 2006, there were already 2 billion devices within the Internet of things. By 2016, that number had grown to 6.38 billion. Now it’s estimated that there are currently over 8.4...

CredSSP Flaw in RDP Credential Security Support Provider protocol (CredSSP), a Windows protocol that interacts with features like RDP, has a critical vulnerability. The danger here is that malicious entities could manipulate RDP to gain access to user’s devices and...

Is this the end of Flash? Adobe has acknowledged that all versions of Flash before 28.0.0.161 contain a critical vulnerability. This vulnerability allows “arbitrary code execution in the context of the current user." This sort of Remote Code Execution (RCE)...

Are you ready for IoT Patching? Tech firm Hanwha Techwin is racing to fix 13 critical security holes found in its popular line of SmartCam security cameras. The patch rollout is part of public disclosure of the vulnerabilities set for...