Month: December 2024
Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: PAN-OS critical vulnerability
A critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-3393 with a CVSS score of 8.7, has been identified in Palo Alto Networks’ PAN-OS software. This flaw allows unauthenticated attackers to send specially crafted packets that can reboot affected firewalls, leading to potential service...
Top highlights of 2024 on SmarterMSP.com
2024 has been a busy year for SmarterMSP.com. Our team has curated content to help managed service providers (MSPs) enhance their business, sales, and marketing strategies, stay ahead of emerging trends and cyber threats, and, most importantly, prioritize customers. As...
Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: Critical Apache Struts 2 vulnerability
The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) has issued a security update to address a critical vulnerability in both end-of-life and current versions of Apache Struts 2. Under specific conditions, this vulnerability could lead to remote code execution (RCE). Review this Cybersecurity...
The top viewed Cybersecurity Threat Advisories in 2024
2024 was a standout year in cybersecurity. With over 130 Cybersecurity Threat Advisory issued, SmarterMSP.com reflects on the most viewed emerging threats by our audience. From targeted industry attacks to zero-click vulnerabilities and high CVSS flaws, here are the top...
Tech Time Warp: The 20th anniversary of Facebook’s one millionth user
Nearly 40 percent of the world’s total population—more than 3 billion people—uses Facebook each month, and of those, 2.11 billion log into Facebook every day. As ubiquitous as Facebook is in contemporary society, it’s incredible to think that just 20...
Managed data infrastructure services gaining momentum
Data creation and storage are growing exponentially, and more organizations are turning to managed service providers (MSPs) to handle the infrastructure needed to process it. A survey of nearly 200 IT leaders conducted by DataStrike, a provider of managed IT...
‘Tis the season for ‘special deals’ – or is it?
With Black Friday now stretching over a week (or more in many cases) and overlapping with Cyber Monday, which then blends into holiday deals and New Year specials, it’s hard to miss special offers from early November through the end...
The SOC case files: XDR neutralizes threat targeting MSP
This edition of the SOC case files showcases how an incident was detected, contained, and mitigated in about a minute. The SOC is part of Barracuda Managed XDR, an extended visibility, detection, and response (XDR) service. It provides customers with...
Experts look back at 2024’s cybersecurity news
The year 2024 was full of cybersecurity news. It was a year of data breaches, ransomware, the rise of quantum computing, and much more. The only constant was change. As ransomware continued to wreak havoc, according to Security Intelligence, ransomware...
Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: Three critical Sophos firewall vulnerabilities
Sophos has disclosed three critical vulnerabilities in its firewall product that could allow remote unauthenticated attackers to perform structured query language (SQL) injection, execute arbitrary code, and gain privileged secure shell (SSH) access to affected devices. Review the details of...
