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Meet the Administrators of the RSOCKS Proxy Botnet

Krebs on Security

Kloster says he’s worked in many large companies in Omsk as a system administrator, web developer and photographer. “Thanks to you, we are now developing in the field of information security and anonymity!,” “I opened an American visa for myself, it was not difficult to get. .”

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Experts discovered a severe command injection flaw in Cisco Webex Meetings Desktop

Security Affairs

Researchers discovered a “high” severity command injection vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2018-15442, in Cisco Webex Meetings Desktop. Researchers Ron Bowes and Jeff McJunkin of Counter Hack discovered a “high” severity command injection vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2018-15442 , in Cisco Webex Meetings Desktop.

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Initial patch for Webex Meetings flaw WebExec was incomplete. Cisco fixed it again

Security Affairs

Cisco has released a new round of security patches to address potentially serious WebExec Webex flaw first addressed one month ago. The flaw affects Cisco Webex Meetings Desktop and has been rated as a “high” severity command injection vulnerability. when running on a Microsoft Windows end-user system. . Pierluigi Paganini.

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Can smart cities be secured and trusted?

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

As you finish what you thought would be your last espresso and grab your laptop to leave work, your colleague tells you that you need to stay late for an urgent meeting. This scenario seems smart, but is it secure? The cost of a security failure. Best practices to secure smart cities. You breathe a sigh of relief!

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Deployable architecture on IBM Cloud: Simplifying system deployment

IBM Big Data Hub

Monitoring and logging : Robust monitoring and logging capabilities are built into the architecture to provide visibility into the system’s behaviour and performance. Secure and compliant: Deployable architectures on IBM Cloud® are secure and compliant by default for hosting your regulated workloads in the cloud.

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MY TAKE: A path for SMBs to achieve security maturity: start small controlling privileged accounts

The Last Watchdog

But this also opens up a sprawling array of fresh security gaps that threat actors are proactively probing and exploiting. There’s a glut of innovative security solutions, to be sure, and no shortage of security frameworks designed to help companies mitigate cyber risks. However, this is overkill for many, if not most, SMBs.

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Top 12 Cloud Security Best Practices for 2021

eSecurity Planet

From the very beginning of the cloud computing era, security has been the biggest concern among enterprises considering the public cloud. In addition, 95 percent of survey respondents confirmed that they are extremely to moderately concerned about public cloud security. What is cloud security?

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