Security
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IntSights Threat Command Tailored Threat Intelligence
Cyberattacks continue to riddle the news it seems on a daily/weekly basis. We constantly hear of the next major ransomware attack or major data leak event. According to an estimate from CybersecurityVentures, ransomware will attack a business in 2021 every…
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12 Ways to Protect your Organization from Ransomware
It sends a chill up the spine of any CIO, IT admin, or SecOps professional – ransomware. Ransomware is growing in terms of how often it is used to attack an organization, the sophistication, and the tactics used by modern…
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VMware announces new Zero Trust security enhancements at VMworld
Along with VMware Tanzu, security is front and center at VMworld 2021 with new announcements. At VMworld 2021, VMware is announcing new innovations to help deliver even more powerful security for many types of workloads, including endpoints, virtual machines, and…
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vCenter Security Bug Workaround with vCenter Firewall Configuration
Recently we had one of the most significant security advisories that I can remember with vCenter Server. Compromising VMware vCenter Server is the holy grail of a vSphere environment for an attacker as it allows total control of the VMs…
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Patch vCenter Server Critical Security Bug CVE-2021-22005 Download
Security concerns related to our VMware vSphere environments keep us up at night, and with good reason. Critical security bugs that affect your hypervisor virtualization environment can give an attacker the “keys to the kingdom.” It could potentially allow them…
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Office 365 Ransomware protection with SpinOne New Features
Companies are moving to the cloud in drove for housing many business-critical processes, including employee collaboration and productivity tools. The pandemic has taught us many things about how employees can work effectively. They don’t have to be located on-premises if…
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PowerShell Script workaround for SeriousSAM and HiveNightmare Vulnerability
There are many who are looking at ways to automate the process to apply the currently recommended remediation using a script. With Windows, PowerShell is the obvious choice here as it is easy to use and works well on the…
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Check Windows 10 for SeriousSAM and HiveNightmare Vulnerability Fix
***Update*** – Check out the link to my PowerShell remediation script below. Well, it has been quite a year so far in many ways. Including the fun we have had as system administrators is the seemingly record number of zero-day…
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Recovering from Ransomware in 2021
Ransomware is a terrifying thought for business-critical data. It seems like new reports, television news spots, Internet ads, and others are littered with ransomware attacks. There is no question this is one of the most dangerous threats for organizations today…
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VMware vCenter Server VCSA Remote Code Execution Exploited in the wild – VMSA-2021-0010 CVE-2021-21985
As a reminder to everyone and the danger of having unpatched systems, it is sobering to hear that the vCenter Server vulnerability tracked as CVE-2021-21985 is being actively exploited. I had read the article here over the weekend showing the…
