Month: September 2023
Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: New Cisco vulnerabilities discovered
Cisco is warning of five new Catalyst SD-WAN Manager product vulnerabilities. The most critical vulnerability allows unauthorized remote access to the server. Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered in SD-WAN Manager that allows an attacker to access the compromised instance or cause...
Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: WS_FTP Server vulnerabilities uncovered
Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in all versions of WS_FTP Server. The critical and high vulnerabilities include a directory traversal flaw (CVE-2023-42657) with a CVSS score of 9.9, a high-severity reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) issue (CVE-2023-40045, CVSS 8.3), a SQL...
Tech Time Warp: Spilling the tea about HotJava
In the mid-1990s, when early internet users were first exposed to the online world via AOL CD-ROMs, websites were static places. You could find text, graphics, and some choppy audio and video. But that was about to change with the...
Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: New Microsoft Word vulnerability
A new Microsoft Word vulnerability, CVE-2023-36761, was disclosed by Microsoft. This new vulnerability is rated 5.3 by NIST, a medium-level vulnerability but Microsoft has rated this as “Important”. Barracuda MSP recommends reviewing this Cybersecurity Threat Advisory in detail and follow...
From Basics to Breakthroughs: Evolution of IT security in the 1980s
As part of our 5-part series on the evolution of cybersecurity, check out our first article below that covers how War Games and Worms led to the creation of the first cybersecurity efforts in the 1980s. While cybersecurity is a multibillion-dollar...
Ask an MSP Expert: Mastering cold-calling in 2023
As a managed service provider (MSP), you are constantly looking for ways to grow your business. Many are using cold-calling, a standard sales outreach technique, to mine for more business. However, it’s no secret that many grapple with the perceived...
SMBs must prioritize cybersecurity planning
Cybersecurity vulnerabilities connected to large businesses have received much attention recently, especially the several casinos in Las Vegas that were forced to go offline due to cyberattacks. Casinos are a vital economic engine in Nevada, but it’s not just sprawling...
Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: Apple releases patches for zero-day vulnerabilities
Apple has released more security patches after three zero-day vulnerabilities were discovered in iOS, iPadOS, MacOS, WatchOS, and Safari. These vulnerabilities are actively being exploited in the wild against several frameworks and systems of Apple products, making sixteen total zero-days...
Empathy: The key to unlocking successful customer partnerships
Business partnerships can be structured around several factors—shared opportunities, complementary technologies or customer bases, long-standing personal relationships, or even the sharing of mutual competitors. Trust is critical, of course, but there is another element that is also important when it...
Current IT monitoring approaches lead to MSP opportunity
As environments become more complex, the level of satisfaction with existing approaches to IT monitoring is declining. A survey of 500 IT leaders conducted by Method Research on behalf of LogicMonitor finds nearly half of respondents (46 percent) have negative...