Month: September 2014

“I am a 100% ServiceDesk Plus customer for life “- Radiology Associates

Radiology Associates is a medical imaging business with four imaging centers and a corporate headquarters based in Corpus Christi, Texas. The company provides a full range of outpatient imaging services. An IT team of 10 uses ServiceDesk Plus Enterprise edition to support 250 workstations

‘Shellshock’ Bug Spells Trouble for Web Security

As if consumers weren’t already suffering from breach fatigue: Experts warn that attackers are exploiting a critical, newly-disclosed security vulnerability present in countless networks and Web sites that rely on  Unix and  Linux  operating systems. Experts say the flaw, dubbed “Shellshock,” is so intertwined with the modern Internet that it could prove challenging to fix, and in the short run is likely to put millions of networks and countless consumer records at risk of compromise. The bug is being compared to the recent Heartbleed vulnerability because of its ubiquity and sheer potential for causing havoc on Internet-connected systems — particularly Web sites

Bash or “Shellshock” vulnerability

Summary News is breaking about a major new high severity vulnerability, CVE-2014-6271 , with widespread impact. Gnu Bourne again shell (Bash) is a UNIX like command shell that is included in most distributions of Linux and also Apple OS X. The vulnerability allows an attacker to create environment variables that include malicious code before the system calls the Bash shell.

Shell-shocked by shell shock? Bash vulnerability explained.

Having recovered from the recent Heartbleed vulnerabilities we now have another headline grabbing vulnerability to keep us all busy. First let me say that our product should be perfectly safe and secure unless you’ve already shared your passwords or forgotten to run “lbsecure”

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Delivering business-critical services to end users without any disruption or degradation in the quality or speed can be quite a challenge. The underlying  network and server layers must be in top shape, because  a ny performance degradation, fault, or attack in these layers will affect the service delivery.

Safeguard Your Computers Easily with Desktop Central’s Exclusive Patch Edition

Is your organization focusing on securing its network against operating system and application vulnerabilities to alleviate costs due to potential threats?  Then you are perhaps looking not just for a comprehensive solution, but also a scalable product so that the future needs of the organization can be met. Well then, here’s Desktop Central ‘s   Patch Management suite  that’ll meet all your needs to the tee! This edition will automate heterogeneous patch deployments and  provide extensive reporting capabilities

​Think Before You Wipe: Destroying Mobile Data Is Just One Option for Missing Devices

Modern day organizations provide employees the flexibility to work from anywhere around the office, ​ such as the workstation, cafeteria, or meeting rooms. When employees use mobile devices to do work, they will store data on them. And, when employees move around with these devices, ​ there is a fair chance a few of the devices will get lost