Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) scores have been viewed as the de facto measure to prioritize vulnerabilities. Vulnerabilities are assigned CVSS scores ranging from one...
October Patch Tuesday fixes 87 vulnerabilities, 6 of them publicly disclosed
October Patch Tuesday is here. While the next two weeks are going to be busy for system administrators as they hustle to test and deploy...
Multi-browser management made easy with Browser Security Plus
A survey by Gartner revealed that 74 percent of companies will move at least five percent of their previously on-site workforce to permanently remote positions...
System extensions are replacing macOS kernel extensions. How will this affect you?
From the outset, Apple has been keen to protect user privacy and security, and deprecating kernel extensions is one of the company’s latest moves towards...
macOS 11 Big Sur: A bird’s-eye view
Here is a quick guide of everything you need to know about macOS 11 Big Sur. This successor to macOS 10.15 Catalina is expected to...
September 2020 Patch Tuesday comes with fixes for 129 vulnerabilities in Microsoft products
Needless to say, Monday blues are the worst. Well, how does “Tuesday blues” sound to you? Of course it’s yet another Patch Tuesday, or that...
South Africa’s GDPR: The POPI Act and its impact on Desktop Central users
The Protection of Personal Information (POPI) Act puts South Africa’s data regulation standards on par with existing data protection laws around the world. It aims...
Patch Tuesday August 2020 fixes 120 vulnerabilities and two actively exploited zero-days
The second Tuesday of the month is upon us, and this translates to only one thing in the world of IT security: Patch Tuesday. Microsoft...