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By Edna Conway As cyberattack prevention becomes an increasingly critical focus of homeland security efforts, industry observers are taking a closer look at the readiness of the nation’s critical infrastructure. Some believe there is reason to worry. Researchers recently revealed that many industrial systems, including some used in public utilities, come with default passwords that are readily available and could be used by hackers to gain remote root access and disrupt services or cause damage. Just last December, at least three of Ukraine’s energy […]

Source:: Cisco Security Notice

By Talos Group Patch Tuesday for March 2016 has arrived. Today, Microsoft has released their monthly set of security bulletins designed to address security vulnerabilities within their products. This month’s release contains 13 bulletins addressing 44 vulnerabilities. Five bulletins are rated critical and address vulnerabilities in Edge, Graphic Fonts, Internet Explorer, Windows Media Player, and Window PDF. The remaining eight bulletins are rated important and address vulnerabilities in .NET, Office, and several other Windows components. Bulletins Rated Critical Microsoft bulletins MS16-023, MS16-024, and […]

Source:: Cisco Security Notice

By Scott Harrell Best Security Company and Best Security Organization Awards for Cisco I speak with customers and partners frequently and I always hear common themes in the challenges that prevent them from achieving effective security. The diversity, rate of change, and complexity of what customers and partners are protecting continues to rapidly grow while the attackers continue to innovate on a global scale and become more efficient in exploiting this increasing complexity. Meanwhile resource-constrained security teams are struggling to operationalize dozens of […]

Source:: Cisco Security Notice