Shopping online has continually grown in popularity, especially when it comes to tracking down that hard-to-find item, and cybercriminals have certainly taken notice. According to the Better Business Bureau (BBB), online shopping scams reported to their Scam Tracker have risen 87% since 2015.

PORTLAND, MAINE, November 16, 2022 — Systems Engineering, Inc. announced Jen Hughes has been appointed Director, People & Culture. Hughes joins the company's leadership team assuming responsibility for the organization's human resources function and employee-owner success.

It's been a little over a year since the official release of Windows 11 in October 2021. During this time, we have been deploying it to customers upon request, and our engineering teams have been assessing and monitoring the latest OS for stability and quality issues. We recently completed the evaluation and can report that our systems and services are now compatible with Microsoft Windows 11 for workstations, and ready to support our clients as they move onto this new OS.

Systems Engineering is aware of the following security vulnerability in Fortinet operating systems, FortiOS: CVE-2022-40684 / FG-IR-22-377.

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On Tuesday, August 23, an advisory notification was released by VMware, the virtualization technology software firm, announcing a local privilege escalation vulnerability (CVE-2022-31676). Updates are available to remediate this vulnerability in affected VMware products.

Several cybersecurity research groups have identified and studied the use of a Zero-Day vulnerability found in the Mitel VoIP MiConnect solution, CVE-2022-29499. The vulnerability exists due to improper input validation in the Mitel Service Appliance. A cyberattacker can send a specially crafted HTTP GET request to the application and execute arbitrary Operating System commands on the target system. Successful exploitation of this flaw may result in the complete compromise of the vulnerable system. This vulnerability has been successfully exploited by at least one ransomware group.