Experts warn of a 16-year-old vulnerability (CVE-2021-3438) in an HP, Xerox, and Samsung printers driver that an attacker could exploit to gain admin rights on systems. Researchers from SentinelOne discovered a 16-year-old security vulnerability in an HP, Xerox, and Samsung printers driver that can allow attackers to gain admin rights on systems running the flawed driver. The discovery was casually made several months ago, while experts were configuring a brand new HP printer, and noticed…

  There was once a time when Marie Babineau felt she had to pretend to be one of the boys in order to be taken seriously. Determined to prove herself to her male colleagues, Marie learned how to crimp an RG-45 wire, program a router in command line, and become a fierce Unix system admin, among many other highly technical skills. The more she learned, the more confidence she gained. In this edition of our…

This month, we held our quarterly VMware Multi-Cloud Briefing, an online event dedicated to enabling organizations to accelerate multi-cloud strategies in a rapidly changing world. Our focus for this quarter’s event was on managing and optimizing a multi-cloud environment, where we discussed the latest industry trends and best practices. We also had the opportunity to hear from VMware customers on how they’re operationalizing a multi-cloud strategy across financial management, operations, and security and compliance. In…

Knowing that many organizations fail to patch known flaws, attackers continually scan for security holes that they can exploit, says Barracuda. Image: seksan Mongkhonkhamsao/Moment/Getty Images One key way that cybercriminals compromise organizations and users is by exploiting known security vulnerabilities. As new flaws are discovered all the time, hackers always have plenty of fresh meat from which they can carry out attacks against vulnerable products. SEE: Incident response policy (TechRepublic Premium) Of course, one key way that…

Paralysis is the worst possible state for businesses to find themselves in when faced with the threat, says Claroty’s CPO. nevarpp, Getty Images/iStockphoto Grant Geyer came aboard the industrial cybersecurity company Claroty in April 2020 as chief product officer amid the global pandemic and an explosion of ransomware attacks. In the first half of 2020 with COVID-19 restrictions in place, U.S.-based organizations alone saw a 109% rise in ransomware attacks, while general malware detections dropped…

A dangerous vulnerability was found in the Linux systemd stack. Find out what it is and how to upgrade your Linux distributions. Image: Sergey Nivens/Shutterstock As if systemd didn’t already have enough detractors, it now has a serious vulnerability to pile onto the mix. OK, that might be a bit hyperbolic of me. Or not. You see, systemd has (since inception) been lambasted and attacked. Why? That depends on who you ask. But from my…