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Top 5 Security Trends for CIOs

CIO

With every such change comes opportunity–for bad actors looking to game the system. Sometimes they simply don’t work, perhaps due to a change in contact lenses or a new tattoo. A second, more pernicious risk is the fact that ChatGPT can write malware. The malware itself is easy to buy on the Dark Web.

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8 big IT failures of 2023

CIO

And because the incumbent companies have been around for so long, many are running IT systems with some elements that are years or decades old. Honestly, it’s a wonder the system works at all. Probably the worst IT airline disaster of 2023 came on the government side, however.

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Leaky Apps – How Banning Them Builds App Security

Ivanti

Insider threats The risk from insider threats is a major concern in app security, due to the difficulty of detecting malicious insiders who already have legitimate access to systems and data. By the end of November 2022, over 22,500 new vulnerabilities had been added to the worldwide CVE database, already 10% more than in all of 2021.

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Top 3 Security Trends That MSPs Should Follow in 2021

Kaseya

However, with the dust finally settling, businesses worldwide are now recuperating from last year’s setbacks and gearing up to scale new heights in 2021. MSPs can potentially add new security services to grow their existing accounts and attract new customers in 2021 and beyond. Security Is the Top Concern for MSP Clients.

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Microsoft’s July 2021 Patch Tuesday Includes 116 CVEs (CVE-2021-31979, CVE-2021-33771)

Tenable

Microsoft patched 116 CVEs in the July 2021 Patch Tuesday release, including 12 CVEs rated as critical, 103 rated as important and one rated as moderate. It’s only the second time in 2021 that Microsoft has included more than 100 vulnerabilities in Patch Tuesday, while it passed that milestone eight times in 2020. 12 Critical.

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CVE-2021-26084: Atlassian Confluence OGNL Injection Vulnerability Exploited in the Wild

Tenable

CVE-2021-26084. CVE-2021-26084 is an Object-Graph Navigation Language (OGNL) injection vulnerability in the Atlassian Confluence Webwork implementation. Thousands of Confluence Servers are vulnerable to CVE-2021-26084. CVE -2021-26084 is a critical severity remote code execution vulnerability affecting Atlassian Confluence.

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Microsoft’s January 2021 Patch Tuesday Addresses 83 CVEs

Tenable

In its first Patch Tuesday of 2021, Microsoft patched 83 CVEs including 10 critical vulnerabilities. Microsoft patched 83 CVEs in the January 2021 Patch Tuesday release, including 10 CVEs rated as critical and 73 rated as important. CVE-2021-1647 | Microsoft Defender Remote Code Execution Vulnerability.