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Cisco has rolled out patches for security flaws across multiple versions of its products. The company disclosed the patches in an advisory on Wednesday, describing two vulnerabilities, one of which rated Critical in severity. “A vulnerability in the cluster database API of Cisco Expressway Series and Cisco TelePresence VCS could allow an authenticated, remote attacker with Administrator read-write privileges on the application to conduct absolute path traversal attacks on an affected device and overwrite files on…

Getty Images On the last day of May, one of my inboxes began receiving emails, purportedly from one of the owners of the yoga studio I visit. It concerned a message I sent in January through the studio’s website that had been resolved the following day in an email sent by the co-owner. Now, here she was, four months later, emailing me again. “Listed below the documents we chatted regarding last week,” the email author…

CIOs are no strangers to lengthy, convoluted approvals processes. Every time they want to bring on a new IT vendor, they must go through multiple levels of approval: procurement, legal, compliance, and more. It might take anywhere from three to six months to onboard a new IT vendor, and during that time, the clock is ticking. Whatever problem the vendor is being brought on to solve is only getting worse. Meanwhile, the trend seems to…

Multiple Russian influence networks have been running disinformation and influence campaigns since May designed to sow division in the West over its support for Ukraine, according to Recorded Future. These efforts are being conducted by “state-controlled media, known covert intelligence outlets, and known propaganda and disinformation amplifiers” including ‘legitimate’ broadcasters like RT, disinformation outlets like Southfront, and “Telegram troll farms” like Cyber Front Z, the report claimed. France, Germany, Poland and Turkey are the primary targets…

Michael W. Smith is a consummate business-first, cross-functional leader. Known for his leadership at big brand companies including Nike and Mylan, he currently serves as CIO of The Estée Lauder Companies, a Fortune 213 company that operates in 150 countries and generates roughly $17B in revenue. Michael is also well-known for the work he’s done to give back and strengthen the broader technology community. In 2017, he launched Tech Day for Pink to unite technologists…

The leaders of MI5 and the FBI shared the stage for the first time yesterday in a bid to warn business leaders and academics of the seriousness of the espionage threat from China. British intelligence boss Ken McCallum explained that the Communist Party and the government it controls has been engaged for years in attempts to steal “world-leading expertise, technology, research and commercial advantage” to boost China’s global standing. This takes many forms: from Chinese…

Cybersecurity at Marriott International is under scrutiny once again this week after hackers reportedly stole 20GB of data from one of its hotels in the US. The hotel giant claimed that a threat actor managed to socially engineer an “associate” at the BWI Airport Marriott in Baltimore, Maryland, enabling them to exfiltrate data from that individual’s computer. The group added that this was an isolated incident, contained within a few hours, and that it had…

By Rob Greer, Vice President and General Manager, Symantec Enterprise Division As the GM of Symantec, I had the good fortune of being able to attend both the Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit and the 2022 RSA Conference the week of June 6. While attending two conferences on different coasts in a single week gave me jet lag, it also gave me a chance to hear again the concerns of some of the smartest…