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Work from Home Modifies the Endpoint Security Equation, Cisco Says SPONSORED CONTENT: As customers get to grips with this new WFH reality, theyll need to simplify their implementations and make more use of automation, says Cisco Secures Al Huger. The work-from-home trend is here to stay and has forever altered how enterprises handle endpoint security, says Cisco Secures Al Huger. Its also created new challenges for operations and security management, he adds. And as customers get to grips with...

Mar 08, 2021 Giving the right user secure access to a system, resource, application, or network hinges on one thing — accurately confirming the users identity. Organizations often rely on directory services such as Active Directory (AD) to authorize account access verifying a username and password combination. The problem is the attackers can steal and misuse these credentials for malicious purposes, and the organization would never know. Since the credential is valid, the attacker gains acce...

Significant jump in number of hackers reporting vulnerabilities to companies Since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, the number of hackers reporting security vulnerabilities and bugs to enterprises has increased by nearly two-thirds Share this item with your network: By Published: 09 Mar 2021 14:42 The number of white hat hackers who find security vulnerabilities and warn companies about them, usually to earn a bug bounty, increased by 63% in 2020, according to the latest annual Hacker ...

Security firm Check Point revealed how Chinese hackers infiltrated hacking tools from the NSA and possibly used them against U.S. targets.

Latest macOS Big Sur also has SUDO root privilege escalation flaw By 06:00 AM A recently discovered heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability in Linux SUDO also impacts the latest version of Apple macOS Big Sur, with no patch available yet. Last week, BleepingComputer had reported on  , a flaw in SUDO which lets local users gain root privileges. Sudo is a Unix program that enables system admins to provide limited root privileges to normal users listed in the sudoers file, while at the same...

minute read Share this article: Two security vulnerabilities — one a privilege-escalation problem and the other a stored XSS bug — afflict a WordPress plugin with 40,000 installs. Two vulnerabilities (one critical) in a WordPress plugin called Orbit Fox could allow attackers to inject malicious code into vulnerable websites and/or take control of a website. Orbit Fox is a multi-featured WordPress plugin that works with the Elementor, Beaver Builder and Gutenberg site-building ...

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