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Vertosoft Named as a Solutions Distributor by Immersive Labs
Immersive Labs named Vertosoft as its new public sector distributor for their human cyber readiness platform.
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LEESBURG, Va., March 8, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Immersive Labs named Vertosoft as its new public sector distributor for their human cyber readiness platform. Vertosoft is a fast-growing software distributor whose mission is bringing emerging tech to the government. This new partnership will allow Federal, State, and Local government bodies to have access to Immersive Labs valuable cybersecurity workforce skills training.
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The threat of malicious activity targeting IT systems or the people that use them has only grown in recent years. All bodies of government are vulnerable targets, and their employees require a cyber training solution to bring risk factors down. This is where Immersive Labs has the answer with their
Any user could become root, warns Immersive Labs researcher
Gareth Corfield Wed 3 Mar 2021 // 16:47 UTC Share
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Proof of concept code has been published for a vulnerability in popular data centre security management tool Saltstack, which was discovered after a developer at Immersive Labs found a privilege escalation bug allowing any old user to become root.
SaltStack offers open-source, Python-based automation tools and was acquired by VMware in October last year.
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Last year Salt patched two CVEs – CVE-2020-11651 and CVE-2020-11652 – after researchers from F-Secure spotted an authentication bypass and a directory traversal vuln, both of which were patched at the time. Famously, the combo exposed those with Salt installations to complete control by an attacker.
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