Cisco Systems says hackers are already trying to take advantage of the vulnerability. If a person has access to a computer they may be able to easily upgrade their privileges to administrator using the exploit.
This comes after a researcher released proof of concept code for a new Windows zero-day vulnerability. Windows administrators were warned to watch for suspicious changes in users’ access privileges. Worse is that usernames and passwords for a number of subscribers to the hosted service were exposed, forcing GoDaddy to make those users reset their passwords. The email addresses of up to 1.2 million active and inactive WordPress customers were copied. GoDaddy, one of the biggest internet hosting providers, has admitted that a compromised password led to the hack of its managed WordPress service. But first a look back at some of the news from the past seven days:
In a few minutes Dinah Davis, the Canadian-based vice-president of research and development at managed service provider Arctic Wolf will be with me for a discussion. I’m Howard Solomon, contributing writer on cybersecurity for. It’s the Week in Review edition for the week ending Friday November 26th.
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