Mitre is a non-profit organization best known for running the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) Program with the stated goal of making the world safer. They are succeeding in their goal by raising awareness of software vulnerabilities and pressuring vendors to fix problems.
Read MoreJunior Tech: “Why isn’t this working.”
Senior Tech: “Oh, you just need to do X, Y, Z”
Junior Tech: (wow they’re so smart)
Senior Tech: (I’ve made that mistake so many times.)
Read MoreMicrosoft published information on a critical remote code execution vulnerability dubbed the Bluekeep RDP vulnerability (CVE-2019-0708) in May 2019. Windows 8 and newer systems have a default RDP setting requiring Network Level Authentication that mitigates the risk of this vulnerability while systems running Windows 7 and Server 2k8 or 2k8 R2 can be patched. LARG*net immediately scanned all member networks to determine if whether anyone was externally vulnerable and thankfully no one was.
Read MoreRecently a number of articles were published alerting VLC users about a new zero day. The remote code execution this zero day takes advantage of does sound rather scary and users should definitely be made aware of the issue. Yet there’s a difference between sensible and sensational reporting.
Read More10x engineers is a Silicon Valley term used to describe engineers that are ten times more productive than average. They can be from any of the usual IT categories; programmers, network engineers, sysadmins, etc.
Read MoreA zero day vulnerability is a software bug that has been fixed/patched for 0 days. A zero day exploit is the code attackers use to take advantage of a zero day vulnerability.
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