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Breaking News: CVEs and Hot Takes

  • Number of Courses29 courses
  • Duration8 hours

Keeping up with the continuous evolution of cyber threats and events is tough!

In this path, we cover critical, new vulnerabilities and exploits discovered - what they are, how to identify them in your environment and what risks are of concern to cybersecurity professionals. Next, join us as we discuss popular topics in our Hot Takes! Security experts weigh in and give opinions on the recent breaches, emerging technologies or techniques that may, or may not, change the landscape of cybersecurity and technology!

Courses in this path

Critical Vulnerabilities and Exploits: What You Should Know

Learn about new, critical vulnerabilities - what they are, the scope of systems affected and what steps you should immediately take to detect and mitigate in your environment.

OpenPrinting CUPS Remote Code Execution Exploit Chain: What You Should Know

  • by Matthew Lloyd Davies
  • 14m Duration

CVE-2024-43491 Windows Update Remote Code Execution: What You Should Know

  • by Matthew Lloyd Davies
  • 7m Duration

Windows TCP/IP Remote Code Execution Vulnerability: What You Should Know

  • by Michael Teske
  • 11m Duration

regreSSHion - an OpenSSH RCE Vulnerability: What You Should Know

  • by Matthew Lloyd Davies
  • 13m Duration

Palo Alto PAN-OS RCE Vulnerability: What You Should Know

  • by Matthew Lloyd Davies
  • 14m Duration

XZ Backdoor Supply Chain Vulnerability: What You Should Know

  • by Matthew Lloyd Davies
  • 21m Duration

ConnectWise ScreenConnect Vulnerability: What You Should Know

  • by Aaron Rosenmund
  • 18m Duration

Ivanti Avalanche Vulnerability: What You Should Know

  • by Michael Teske
  • 9m Duration

Ivanti Connect Secure VPN Vulnerability: What You Should Know

  • by Michael Teske
  • 11m Duration

Atlassian RCE Vulnerabilities: What You Should Know

  • by Matthew Lloyd Davies
  • 9m Duration

TorchServe Vulnerabilities: What You Should Know

  • by Brandon DeVault
  • 19m Duration

Kubernetes on Windows Vulnerability: What You Should Know

  • by Michael Teske
  • 12m Duration

VMWare ESXi Vulnerability: What You Should Know

  • by Brandon DeVault
  • 4m Duration
  •  (11)

MOVEit Vulnerability: What You Should Know

  • by Aaron Rosenmund
  • 17m Duration

Microsoft Outlook Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability: What You Should Know

  • by Brandon DeVault
  • 5m Duration

Log4j Vulnerability Lab: Video Walkthrough

  • by Brandon DeVault
  • 22m Duration

Talking Tradecraft @ Pluralsight: A Technical Dive into the Log4Shell Exploit

  • by Aaron Rosenmund
  • 57m Duration

Log4j Vulnerability: What You Should Know

  • by Brandon DeVault
  • 8m Duration
  •  (77)

Apache Commons Text Vulnerability: What You Should Know

  • by Bri Frost
  • 10m Duration
  •  (19)

Security Hot Takes

Attackers' new tactics, Ransomware as a service, or AI taking over the world? Join our team as we keep you up-to-date about the latest hot topics within the cybersecurity industry.

Security Hot Takes: Mid-year Review 2024

  • by Michael Teske
  • 16m Duration

Security Hot Takes: CrowdStrike Outage Post-mortem

  • by Bri Frost
  • 31m Duration
  •  (16)

Security Hot Takes: Critical Infrastructure Advisory-Volt Typhoon

  • by Matthew Lloyd Davies
  • 17m Duration

Security Hot Takes: Aliquippa Water Authority Breach

  • by Matthew Lloyd Davies
  • 17m Duration

Security Hot Takes: Rackspace Breach

  • by Bri Frost
  • 12m Duration

Security Hot Takes: Buzzwords and Predictions

  • by Aaron Rosenmund
  • 13m Duration

Security Hot Takes: LastPass Breach

  • by Aaron Rosenmund
  • 33m Duration

Security Hot Takes: SBOMs

  • by Brandon DeVault
  • 18m Duration

Security Hot Takes: ChatGPT

  • by Michael Teske
  • 14m Duration
  •  (29)

Security Hot Takes: Federal Network Breach

  • by Aaron Rosenmund
  • 19m Duration
  •  (11)

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Matthew Lloyd Davies
Matthew Lloyd Davies
Matt is a cyber security author and researcher here at Pluralsight. A certified penetration tester and incident handler, he created Pluralsight's CompTIA Pentest+ Specialized Attacks courses as well our courses on wireless, ICS/OT and hardware hacking. Matt has also helped to build our security labs portfolio; labs that help you get hands-on to understand the threats and vulnerabilities your organization faces today. With a background in Chemical Engineering, Matt's focus is on the security ... more
Michael Teske
Michael Teske
Michael Teske is a principal security author with Pluralsight helping people build their skills toolkit. Michael has 25+ years of experience in the IT Ops/Cloud/Cybersecurity industry including 17 of those years as an IT instructor at a technical college, focusing on Microsoft server infrastructure, security and automation. Michael attained his MBA with an emphasis in Computer Information System Security several years ago. Michael still keeps up with the industry as an independent consultant in ... more
Aaron Rosenmund
Aaron Rosenmund
Aaron M. Rosenmund is a cyber security operations subject matter expert, with a background in federal and business defensive and offensive cyber operations and system automation. Leveraging his administration and automation experience, Aaron actively contributes to multiple open and closed source security operation platform projects and continues to create tools and content to benefit the community. As an educator & cyber security researcher at Pluralsight, he is focused on advancing cyber secur... more
Bri Frost
Bri Frost
Bri is a renowned expert with 7 years of experience in the field of Cybersecurity and IT, bringing a unique perspective to the table. As the Director of Security Curriculum and Research at Pluralsight, Bri is instrumental in developing the cutting-edge cybersecurity curriculum and content strategy. With a wealth of knowledge as an author of Pluralsight training content, she infuses a "red-team" or attacker-focused mindset into her teachings to grasp security concepts and defense strategies effec... more
Brandon DeVault
Brandon DeVault
Brandon DeVault is a Security Researcher focused on threat hunting at CrowdStrike. He is also a member of the Florida Air National Guard with a variety of offensive and defensive experience. Prior to joining CrowdStrike, Brandon worked full-time as an author with Pluralsight and at Elastic, creating and delivering security content. He also worked with Special Operations Command, where he had two deployments to Afghanistan on deployable communications teams. His experience spans incident response... more
Kat DeLorean Seymour
Kat DeLorean Seymour
Kat Seymour is a Security Author with 20 years of experience in technology and information security. With a wide breadth of experience, Kat's focus is on Red, Blue, and Purple team operations, tools, and techniques. Kat retired from a decades long career in Fintech to pursue her passion of mentoring and teaching full time. Throughout her career Kat has worked to build and innovate technology at a Fortune 100 Financial Institution including development of the first formalized application monitori... more

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