Today's Cyber Alert Level is: Guarded
On February 22, the Cyber Threat Alert Level was evaluated and is remaining at Blue (Guarded) due to vulnerabilities in Cisco, Fortinet, and IBM products. On February 17, the MS-ISAC released three advisories. The first advisory was for a vulnerability in Clam antivirus that could allow for remote code execution. The second advisory was for multiple vulnerabilities in FortiWeb, the most severe of which could allow for arbitrary code execution. The third advisory was for multiple vulnerabilities in FortiNAC, the most severe of which could allow for arbitrary code execution. On February 22, the MS-ISAC released an advisory for a vulnerability in IBM Aspera Faspex that could allow for arbitrary code execution. Organizations and users are advised to update and apply all appropriate vendor security patches to vulnerable systems and to continue to update their antivirus signatures daily. Another line of defense includes user awareness training regarding the threats posed by attachments and hypertext links contained in emails especially from un-trusted sources.
Guarded indicates a general risk of increased hacking, virus or other malicious activity. The potential exists for malicious cyber activities, but no known exploits have been identified, or known exploits have been identified but no significant impact has occurred.