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VulnRecap 2/26/24 – VMWare, Apple, ScreenConnect Face Risks

eSecurity Planet

The fix: System administrators are encouraged to install the Exchange Server 2019 Cumulative Update 14 (CU14), which was issued in February 2024 and enabled NTLM credentials Relay Protection. Despite VMware’s three-year-old deprecation statement, unprotected systems remain at risk.

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MY TAKE: Log4j’s big lesson – legacy tools, new tech are both needed to secure modern networks

The Last Watchdog

What’s more, it will likely take a blend of legacy security technologies – in advanced iterations – combined with a new class of smart security tools to cut through the complexities of defending contemporary business networks. Its rather mundane function is to record events in a log for a system administrator to review and act upon, later.

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Automated Patch Management: Definition, Tools & How It Works

eSecurity Planet

Automated patch management can help prevent security breaches by automatically identifying, downloading, testing, and delivering software and firmware updates to devices and applications through the use of specialized software tools. Software updates are critical for keeping a system’s integrity and security intact.

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Linux Patch Management: Tools, Issues & Best Practices

eSecurity Planet

Here we’ll discuss how patch management works on Linux, best practices, and the best patch management tools for Linux. Each operating system has its own unique approach to patch management based on their underlying philosophies and target audiences. Manually updating each system can be tedious, complex and prone to human error.

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Cisco fixes a static default credential issue in Smart Software Manager tool

Security Affairs

One of the flaws patched the IT giant is a critical issue, tracked as CVE-2020-3158 , while six vulnerabilities are rated as high-risk severity. The CVE-2020-3158 flaw is related to the presence of a system account that has a default and static password in the Smart Software Manager tool. Pierluigi Paganini.

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RSAC insights: Software tampering escalates as bad actors take advantage of ‘dependency confusion’

The Last Watchdog

The perpetrators of the Solar Winds breach , for instance, tampered with a build system of the widely-used Orion network management tool. Its function is to record events in a log for a system administrator to review and act upon. Obfuscated tampering.

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Your CVSS Questions Answered

IT Governance

As the CVSS is globally recognised, most industry standards and publicly available security assessment tools use it. Can organisations use the CVSS to help them conduct risk assessments and generally measure risks? some organisations will choose to use their own ‘risk matrix’. a medium risk [even though 3.5

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