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Microsoft fixed a total of 44 vulnerabilities during this month’s patch Tuesday, seven of which were rated as ‘Critical.’ While it was a much lighter Patch Tuesday than the past few months, the tech giant released several high-priority fixes. These included new patches released to “more completely” address two publicly disclosed Print Spooler vulnerabilities, CVE-2021-34481 and CVE-2021-36936. Chris Goettl, senior director of product management at Ivanti, explained that these fixes should be an especially high priority in light of…

Consumer cybersecurity companies NortonLifeLock and Avast have announced an agreement for the Tempe-based cyber safety company to buy the digital security privacy company. NortonLifeLock’s closing share price was $27.20 as of July 13, 2021 — the last trading day before market speculation began — meaning the merger values between $8.1 bn and $8.6 bn. According to a statement released yesterday (August 10 2021), under the terms of the merger, Avast shareholders will be entitled to…

This post will take a look at how vRealize Operations (vROps) can provide a single monitoring and visibility tool into your on-premises data centre, native public cloud services, and hybrid cloud platforms like VMware Cloud on AWS, or Azure VMware Solution. vRealize Operations provides VMware customers with monitoring and alerting, troubleshooting and remediation, dashboards and reporting, performance and capacity management, cost visibility and comparison, and security compliance. vROps for Cloud-First The vRealize Operations Manager instance…

News Detail GE Healthcare’s OnWatch Network Edge Leverages VMware SD-WAN to Seamlessly Deliver Cloud-Hosted Services to Healthcare Providers PALO ALTO, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– In the wake of the global pandemic, healthcare providers are expanding their telehealth offerings and increasingly opting to host these and other remote patient monitoring and analytics workloads in the cloud. To help ease the … Wed, 11 Aug 2021 00:00:00 GE Healthcare’s OnWatch Network Edge Leverages VMware SD-WAN to Seamlessly Deliver Cloud-Hosted…

Most discussions around cybersecurity understandably focus on information technology (IT). Assets like cloud services and data centers are typically what companies spend the most time and effort securing. Recently, though, operational technology (OT) has come under increasing scrutiny from leading security experts in both the private and public sectors. In June, for instance, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released a fact sheet about ransomware attacks on OT. The publication references a growing trend…

Today’s VERT Alert addresses Microsoft’s August 2021 Security Updates. VERT is actively working on coverage for these vulnerabilities and expects to ship ASPL-959 on Wednesday, August 11th. In-The-Wild & Disclosed CVEs CVE-2021-36948 This privilege escalation vulnerability that affects the Windows Update Medic Service (WaasMedic) has been actively exploited. Medic Service is a feature of modern Windows operating systems that repairs and protects your Windows Update components. For example, if you disable Windows Update services, WaasMedic…