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IoT Adoption in Healthcare Brings Security Opportunities

CIO

3 Unit 42 research also found that 83% of ultrasound, MRI, and CT scanners run on an end-of-life operating system. 4 Those operating systems have known vulnerabilities that can potentially be exploited. Simplify operations. What is the device? What is the device supposed to do? IT Leadership

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WannaCry Ransomware Review and Global Impact.

ProtectWise

Any network with hosts running a version of the Windows operating system missing the MS17-010 patches is vulnerable to WannaCry's infection mechanism. The patches for Microsoft (currently supported) operating systems were released on March 14, 2017 following the Shadow Brokers leak. Who Created The Malware?

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Enterprise IT in 2014 – Under-the-Radar Challenges with WAN Bandwidth, BYOD, and XP Security

CTOvision

According to the latest statistics on worldwide operating system use, 29 percent are still using the expiring operating system. Microsoft announced on its TechNet blog that it will extend its anti-malware updates a full year, but there is much more to keeping a system secure than current anti-malware.

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Security and Windows 10 Will Cross Paths for Enterprises

CTOvision

1 area of spending increase in 2015, with nearly half (46%) planning to invest more in access control, intrusion prevention, and virus and malware protection. Deepak was the lead architect of Microsoft Systems Management Server 2003, and prior to that was a program manager with the Windows NT Networking team.

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Microsoft’s July 2020 Patch Tuesday Addresses 123 CVEs Including Wormable Windows DNS Server RCE (CVE-2020-1350) (SIGRed)

Tenable

The flaw has existed for 17 years, affecting Windows Server versions from 2003 to 2019, and was discovered by Sagi Tzadik and Eyal Itkin from Check Point Research who have dubbed this vulnerability “SIGRed.” The related patches do not fix this vulnerability.

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Save Time with Crowd Sourced IT Automation

Kaseya

In case you missed it and/or have not yet patched your Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 operating systems for the BlueKeep vulnerability ( CVE-2019-0708) , Upstream has created an agent procedure for VSA that will apply the patch. Learn more here. Kaseya NOC Dashboard. Security Audit Report.

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Save Time with Crowd Sourced IT Automation

Kaseya

In case you missed it and/or have not yet patched your Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 operating systems for the BlueKeep vulnerability ( CVE-2019-0708) , Upstream has created an agent procedure for VSA that will apply the patch. Learn more here. Kaseya NOC Dashboard. Security Audit Report.