As we head further into the final quarter of 2024 business year, CIOs encounter growing demands for resilient cybersecurity, seamless AI integration, and effective data management strategies. Gartner's recent survey on 2024-2025 CIO priorities highlights these critical areas while emphasizing ongoing concerns around talent shortages, operational efficiencies, and demonstrating the value of IT investmen...
New York, October 4th, 2024 Linux and MacOS have largely remained out of the news when it comes to Malware attacks, but that is changing with threats such as Perfctl, which infiltrates and then works secretly in the background on these systems. While it's been a known threat for several years now, Perfctl is now making its presence felt again. With a greater amount of infrastructure now running...
In a recent announcement that has caught the attention of businesses worldwide, Microsoft revealed a new policy affecting OneDrive for Business accounts. Beginning November 2024, the tech giant will archive any unlicensed OneDrive for Business accounts, imposing a reactivation fee if those accounts need to be restored. This move is part of Microsoft's ongoing efforts to streamline its cloud services, but it could have significant implications, particularly for small to med...
New York, July 18, 2024 The CrowdStrike Cyber Security software has distributed a patch containing a flaw that is affecting Windows systems around the world. GNS does not use CrowdStrike in internal command and control systems, and the core GNS infrastructure is unaffected.. GNS does not install CrowdStrike on client servers unless instructed to by the client. Some GNS hosted and managed cli...
New York, July 2, 2024 A security flaw was recently discovered in OpenSSH's server (sshd). OpenSSH is a version of the Secure Shell (SSH) protocol family of tools. Described as a signal handler race condition, it affects glibc-based Linux systems. CVE-2024-6387 (regreSSHion) is classified as critical as it allows for unauthenticated remote code execution (RCE) with root privileges, posing a threat to...
In a significant move towards enhancing data privacy and security, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has announced amendments to Regulation S-P, aimed at fortifying the safeguarding of consumer financial information and customer records. This update, as outlined in the SEC's recent press release and detailed in the newly released fact sheet, reflects a growing emphasis on cybersecurity an...
In the first quarter of 2024, the cybersecurity sector witnessed a complex interplay of investment dynamics, marked by both a notable contraction in total funding volume and promising signals of recovery in certain investment rounds. This period is especially critical as it reflects broader economic sentiments and strategic shifts within the venture capital landscape that directly impact tec...
New York, 11/21/2023 Generic Network Systems (GNS), a leading provider of comprehensive IT solutions, would like to assure our clientele that notifications sent on behalf of Cloud Software Group regarding a Security Bulletin to address a critical severity vulnerability (CVE-2023-4966) impacting NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway have been addressed and resolved. In doing do, GNS has effectively...
New York, 07/21/2023 Generic Network Systems (GNS), a leading provider of comprehensive IT solutions, is pleased to announce that its managed and hosting services can successfully be applied to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) for Covered Entities. This significant milestone demonstrates GNS's unwavering dedication to ensuring the highest level of security and privacy...
As many may be aware, the password management provider LastPass has reported that they incurred two security breaches last year when threat actor's obtained access to a staff member's personal system. This ultimately provided the threat actor's with access to public cloud storage sites containing encryption keys to customer backup data. While GNS neither makes use of, or supports the LastPass a...
New York, 06/23/2022 The cybersecurity landscape continues to be littered with threat actors attempting to carry out security breaches or cause other harm that can either affect an organization's infrastructure and operations directly, or indirectly should one of their various service providers fall victim to these malicious acts. GNS is acutely aware of such activities and remains vigilant in monitori...
New York, 06/08/2022 GNS has developed a new file transfer tool that can be leveraged by our clientele to securely transmit or receive information for both internal operations and externally with key enterprise partners in order to ensure critical business data is always available. This file management system incorporates enhanced security and extensive customization of workflow capabilities. Click here...
New York, 02/25/2022 For immediate release. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has recently issued advice to businesses and other entities on how to prepare for, and respond to, Russian threat actors should an attempt be made to breach their defenses. They have noted in their 'Shields Up' posting that all U.S. organizations are potentially at risk. While ther...
New York, 12/17/2021 The Apache foundation has released additional notifications under CVE-2021-45105 about further issues with the Apache Log4j2 logging tool. This new notification indicates that the the facility does not always protect from infinite recursion in lookup evaluation. Apache has already released Log4j 2.17.0 to address the issue, and this remediation will be applied in accordan...
New York, 12/13/2021 For immediate release. GNS received notification on December 10th from the Apache Software Foundation regarding an emergency update for a critical zero-day vulnerability CVE-2021-44228, which is in relation to the widely used opensource logging tool Log4j. GNS has been actively scanning hosted applications since the alert was received, and will notify any affected clientele...