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Small businesses have the same security problems as big ones, but not the matching budget or staff. Here are some tips that can help you decide what is important for yours.

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GitLab issues security updates; watch out for hard coded passwords

April 5, 2022 admin CVE, gitlab, hard coded, Password, patch, privacy, update

Credit to Author: Christopher Boyd| Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2022 08:56:14 +0000

We take a look at several security updates released by GitLab, the most important of which addressed hard coded passwords.

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Apply those updates now: CVE bypass offers up admin privileges for Windows 10

February 2, 2022 admin CVE, cve-2022-21882, exploit, hack, Malwarebytes news, microsoft, patch, phish, update, Windows 10

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2022 11:07:29 +0000

A CVE bypass offers up the possibility of admin privileges on Windows 10 machines. Find out what’s happened, and how you can avoid it.

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Pulse VPN patched their vulnerability, but businesses are trailing behind

October 18, 2019 admin Business, cybercriminals, exploit, exploit kits, Exploits, patch, patching, Pulse, VPN, vulnerabilities, Vulnerability

Credit to Author: Pieter Arntz| Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2019 16:36:36 +0000

After a vulnerability in a popular business VPN solutions was discussed at length and an easy to use exploit is availbale, organizations still fail to apply the patch. What’s up?

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4 Lessons to be learned from the DOE’s DDoS attack

May 17, 2019 admin 101, Botnet, ddos, DDos attack, department of energy, dos attacks, exploit, Mirai, Mirai botnet, patch, Smart Grid, Vulnerability

Credit to Author: Kayla Matthews| Date: Fri, 17 May 2019 15:59:32 +0000

The Department of Energy was subject to a DDoS attack that caused major disruptions in their operations. Is the smart grid ready for such an attack? Here are the lessons we can take away from the event.

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What you need to know for Patch Tuesday, March 2019

March 14, 2019 admin CVE, exploit, microsoft, patch, SophosLabs Uncut, tuesday, update, upgrade, Vulnerability, windows

Credit to Author: Andrew Brandt| Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2019 13:00:46 +0000

By SophosLabs Offensive Security Research Microsoft released their monthly security updates for March this past Tuesday. This month’s fixes address 64 vulnerabilities that affect Windows and a range of software that runs on Windows, mainly the Internet Explorer and Edge browsers. In addition, there was a patch released for one critical vulnerability in Adobe Flash. […]<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/Vlj59LNV68Y” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Microsoft’s December updates fix several dozen serious problems

December 21, 2018 admin microsoft, patch, Patch Tuesday, SophosLabs Uncut, update, windows, Windows update

Credit to Author: Andrew Brandt| Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2018 09:00:43 +0000

Don’t give your computers a year-end holiday from regular updates this month<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/_muCl0RYPfk” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>