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Week in review: Strengthening firmware security, Help Net Security: XDR Report released

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles and interviews: Help Net Security: XDR Report has been released The topic of this inaugural report is extended detection and response (XDR), an emerging technology that has been receiving a lot of buzz in the last few years. Apache OpenOffice users should upgrade to newest security release! The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) has released Apache OpenOffice 4.1.11, which fixes a handful of security … More → The post Week in review: Strengthening firmware security, Help Net Security: XDR Report released appeared first on Help Net Security.
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Apache is Actively Scan for CVE-2021-41773 & CVE-2021-42013, (Sat, Oct 16th)

Johannes published a diary on this activity last week for an Apache 2.4.49 directory traversal vulnerability where the patch was made available on September 15, 2021. Apache released a new update on October 7, 2021, indicating their advisory for “Path Traversal and Remote Code Execution in Apache HTTP Server 2.4.49 and 2.4.50 (incomplete fix of CVE-2021-41773) (CVE-2021-42013)”. The current patched version is 2.4.51.
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Veritas InfoScale 8 provides storage optimization for stateful Kubernetes critical workloads

Veritas Technologies announced the next evolution of Veritas InfoScale that will enable customers to deploy InfoScale as containers in native Kubernetes platforms, including Red Hat OpenShift. Native deployment will make it easier to provide InfoScale’s high availability, persistent storage and storage optimization for stateful Kubernetes critical workloads. “Containerization is revolutionizing the data center, allowing applications to burst and shrink their processing capacity to reduce costs and deliver scalability,” said Karthik Ramamurthy, vice president of product … More → The post Veritas InfoScale 8 provides storage optimization for stateful Kubernetes critical workloads appeared first on Help Net Security.
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Veritas InfoScale 8 provides storage optimization for stateful Kubernetes critical workloads

Veritas Technologies announced the next evolution of Veritas InfoScale that will enable customers to deploy InfoScale as containers in native Kubernetes platforms, including Red Hat OpenShift. Native deployment will make it easier to provide InfoScale’s high availability, persistent storage and storage optimization for stateful Kubernetes critical workloads. “Containerization is revolutionizing the data center, allowing applications to burst and shrink their processing capacity to reduce costs and deliver scalability,” said Karthik Ramamurthy, vice president of product … More → The post Veritas InfoScale 8 provides storage optimization for stateful Kubernetes critical workloads appeared first on Help Net Security.
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Zimperium partners with PCI SSC to help secure payment data on mobile apps and devices

Zimperium announced it has joined the PCI Security Standards Council (PCI SSC) as a new Participating Organization. Zimperium will work with the PCI SSC to help secure payment data worldwide on mobile apps and devices. It will also leverage its threat research and technology to help evolve requirements and drive the adoption of PCI Security Standards. The PCI SSC leads a global, cross-industry effort to increase payment security by providing flexible, industry-driven, and effective data … More → The post Zimperium partners with PCI SSC to help secure payment data on mobile apps and devices appeared first on Help Net Security.
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House Democrats urge OMB to step up demographic data collection efforts

House Oversight and Reform Committee Chairwoman Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) and Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) urged the Biden administration to create the “institutional infrastructure” needed to support a January executive order on improving equity within government services — and step up data collection programs to advance those efforts.
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Why VA’s $16B (and counting) Electronic Health Record Modernization is doomed

Former VA deputy CIO Ed Meagher says there are two overarching reasons why the Electronic Health Record Modernization effort will struggle to succeed.
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Modernizing ERM in Federal Agencies

During this webinar Dan Zitting, the CEO of Galvanize, will discuss how making better use of data and technology can help federal agencies more rapidly allow decision makers address and mitigate risks.
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