Through emPSN’s registrations with various security partners we receive information around the IP addresses on the emPSN network, including potential vulnerabilities. Third Party vulnerability data is taken from public reference sources, supplied on an as… More »
The deadline for schools to verify their domains within Apple school manager is looming, schools must complete the verification process by Decemeber 2021 to avoid unverified Apple accounts being removed. The Apple bulletin reads… From 26… More »
All of our schools that are connected to the emPSN network have free access to the Listening Books taster catalogue which is updated on a monthly basis. Below are some new titles for Autumn. All… More »
Michael Kendall is our Managing Director and has been with emPSN, in one role or another since 1999. For those with long-term memory, under the National Grid for Learning, there was a desire by the… More »
Our Security Partner, Jisc has seen a rise in compromised hosts and networks via globally exposed SSH services. In particular, a trend has been spotted with attacks on Linux servers by leveraging misconfigured SSH, which… More »
Listening Books provide a postal and internet-based audiobook service to children and young people who have a disability or illness that impacts their ability to read the printed word. They have a huge range of… More »
Our Security Partner have been monitoring reports that attackers are actively exploiting a high-severity vulnerability in Microsoft Windows (CVE-2021-40449). This elevation of privilege vulnerability in the Win32k driver affects multiple server and desktop Windows versions.… More »
Ransomware has continued to be a significant threat not just to the education and research sectors but to all industries this year. A new ransomware group, known as Hive, is rising in prominence due to their sophisticated… More »
On October 5, 2021, The Apache Software Foundation disclosed a path traversal and file disclosure vulnerability (CVE-2021-41773) that affects Apache HTTP Server version 2.4.49. Path traversal attacks (also known as directory traversal, dot-dot-slash, directory climbing,… More »
