Security News
According to a 2019 survey of cybersecurity professionals, these critical data defenders were burned out. As companies hurdle toward digital transformation, automation, cloud computing, brand reputation, and strategic investments are falling on CISOs' plate.
The latest U.S. sanctions on tech giant Huawei threaten to devastate the company and escalate a feud with China that could disrupt technology industries worldwide. Huawei Technologies Ltd. is one of the biggest makers of smartphones and network equipment, but that $123 billion-a-year business is in jeopardy after Washington announced further restrictions on use of American technology by foreign companies that make its processor chips.
Nutanix, a leader in enterprise cloud computing, announced several new capabilities in its hyperconverged infrastructure software and AHV hypervisor to protect business-critical applications and maintain continuous business operations in the face of a possible disaster. The new capabilities in Nutanix HCI and AHV help enable customers to confidently deliver mission-critical applications with significantly less complexity and lower management overhead. "Maintaining continuous business operations is a high priority for all types of companies and organizations," said Greg Smith, VP of Product Marketing at Nutanix.
SAP's May 2020 Security Patch Day updates, which the company released on Tuesday, include a total of 18 Security Notes and 4 updates to previous Notes, with six of them rated Hot News. This month, SAP released another update to a Hot News Security Note released in April 2018, which includes security patches for Chromium browser controls in Business Client.
Adobe has fixed 16 critical flaws across its Acrobat and Reader applications and its Adobe Digital Negative Software Development Kit. Those include 24 critical- and important-severity flaws in its Acrobat and Reader application, used for creating and managing PDF files, and 12 in its Adobe DNG Software Development Kit, which provides support for reading and writing DNG files used for digital photography.
If you are running an online discussion forum based on vBulletin software, make sure it has been updated to install a newly issued security patch that fixes a critical vulnerability. Maintainers of the vBulletin project recently announced an important patch update but didn't reveal any information on the underlying security vulnerability, identified as CVE-2020-12720.
If you are running an online discussion forum based on vBulletin software, make sure it has been updated to install a newly issued security patch that fixes a critical vulnerability. Maintainers of the vBulletin project recently announced an important patch update but didn't reveal any information on the underlying security vulnerability, identified as CVE-2020-12720.
If you're using vBulletin to power your online forum(s), you should implement the newest security patches offered by the developers as soon as possible. The patches fix CVE-2020-12720, a vulnerability affecting versions 5.5.6, 5.6.0 and 5.6.1 with could be exploited without previous authentication.
Samsung this week released its May 2020 set of security updates for Android smartphones, which includes a patch for a critical vulnerability impacting all of its devices since 2014. In addition to the fixes in the Android Security Bulletin - May 2020, the phone maker's updates patch 19 vulnerabilities specific to Samsung smartphones.
Cisco's Talos threat intelligence and research group revealed on Wednesday that one of its researchers discovered a critical remote code execution vulnerability in the CODESYS Control SoftPLC industrial controller software. CODESYS Control SoftPLC is a runtime system that converts any PC or embedded device into an IEC 61131-3-compliant industrial controller.