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As cybersecurity professionals, we are always impressing the importance of patch management as one of the best ways to protect systems against vulnerabilities. Sometimes, the vulnerabilities are never fully exploited. Regardless of the threat possibility, patching is one of the easiest ways to ensure the minimum level of security in an organization. The best part about patching a system is that it is very easy to see the status of the patch level as compared…

When the Biden Administration released its Cybersecurity Executive Order in May 2021, it was clear that Zero Trust would be a central component of the government’s security approach moving forward. Agencies and their partners scrambled to assess their existing Zero Trust investments and the gaps that would need to be filled in order to quickly ramp up implementation. Six months later, after hearing from customers and integrators about the challenges they face, Tripwire experts have…

You can make sure you aren’t seeing fake news, edited photos or deepfakes with this software. Here’s how to install and use it. Image: Lightspring/Shutterstock The evolution of social media and the internet have allowed people and companies to share a lot of content, some of which might be used to spread fake news or misinformation. One of the keys to investigate this material is to try to find evidence of the same image/video being…

A newly discovered vulnerability found in two devices made by Cisco could cause remote access to be disrupted. The flaw – CVE-2021-34704 – was detected by Positive Technologies researcher Nikita Abramov in October in the firewalls of Cisco ASA (Adaptive Security Appliance) and Cisco FTD (Firepower Threat Defense). If the vulnerability is exploited, the organization’s firewall will be weakened, leaving it more vulnerable to attack, and employees who are working remotely would be blocked from accessing their organization’s internal…

The hosting company has revealed a security incident that exposed the email addresses and customer numbers of 1.2 million Managed WordPress customers. Image: BCFC/Shutterstock GoDaddy has been on the receiving end of a security breach that has affected the accounts of more than 1 million of its WordPress customers. In a Monday filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Chief Information Security Officer Demetrius Comes said that on Nov. 17, 2021, the hosting company discovered…