Author: DEFENDEDGE

Grant Oviatt, director of incident-response engagements at Red Canary, provides advice and best practices on how to get there faster. Read more

Original release date: September 3, 2021 CISA has released a new CISA Insights, Risk Considerations for Managed Service Provider Customers (MSPs), which provides Managed Service Provider (MSP) customers a framework for reducing risk. This framework is designed for government and private sector organizations of all sizes, and it suggests considerations for IT management planning, best… Read more

Original release date: September 3, 2021 On August 25, 2021, Atlassian released security updates to address a remote code execution vulnerability (CVE-2021-26084) affecting Confluence Server and Data Center. Recently, CVE-2021-26084 has been detected in exploits in the wild. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to take control of an affected system. CISA urges users… Read more

The BrakTooth set of security vulnerabilities impacts at least 11 vendors’ chipsets. Read more

Original release date: September 2, 2021 Cisco has released security updates to address a critical vulnerability affecting Cisco Enterprise Network Function Virtualization Infrastructure Software (NFVIS) Release 4.5.1. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to take control of an affected system. For updates addressing lower severity vulnerabilities, see the Cisco Security Advisories page. CISA encourages… Read more

A design flaw involving Google Timeline could allow someone to track another device without installing a stalkerware app. Read more

There’s proof-of-concept code out for the near-maximum critical – rated at 9.8 – authentication bypass bug, but Cisco hasn’t seen any malicious exploit yet. Read more

Users should be careful whose pics they view and should, of course, update their apps. Read more

IoT vulnerabilities turn remote into listening device, researchers find, which impacted 18 million Xfinity customers. Read more