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National Cybersecurity Awareness Month: Careers in Cybersecurity

The theme for this week of National Cybersecurity Awareness Month is “Careers in Cybersecurity,” which seeks to provide advice and resources to those seeking careers in cybersecurity and organizations in need of cybersecurity personnel and expertise. The unprecedented demand for well-trained cybersecurity workers continues to grow. Some experts predict that there will be a global shortage of two million cybersecurity professionals by next year.

The Bigger the Company, the Messier the Password Practices

A new report from password management company LogMeIn finds that the bigger the enterprise, the bigger the problem when it comes to managing passwords. The company’s recently released Global Password Security Report scores its 43,000 customers on password strength, reuse, and use of multi-factor authentication. While the average score equaled a 52 out of 100 — a score LogMeIn considers to be good — the numbers generally showed the larger the company, the lower the average security score.

WECON PI Studion (ICSA-18-277-01) – Product Used in the Water and Wastewater and Energy Sectors

The NCCIC has released an advisory on stack-based buffer overflow, out-of-bounds write, information exposure through XML external entity reference, and out-of-bounds read vulnerabilities in WECON PI Studio. PI Studio HMI versions 4.1.9 and prior and PI Studio versions 4.2.34 and prior are affected. Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities may allow remote code execution, execution of code in the context of an administrator, read past the end of an allocated object or allow an attacker to disclose sensitive information under the context of administrator.

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