Cisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CSCO) has issued warnings to customers about critical vulnerabilities in the Sophos antivirus engine found in its Cisco IronPort email and Web security appliances. Cisco said Friday in a security advisory that Cisco IronPort Email Security Appliances (ESA) and Cisco IronPort Web Security Appliances (WSA) contain updates of Sophos Anti-Virus that include numerous vulnerabilities that is capable of allowing an unauthenticated, remote attacker to gain control of the system, escalate privileges, or cause a denial-of-service (DoS) condition.
The company rated the sternness of the vulnerabilities at 9.7 out of 10 on the CVSS (Common Vulnerability Scoring System) scale. The rating suggests that the flaws can be attacked from the network, contain a low complexity access level and can entirely take control of the confidentiality and integrity of the affected products.
Latest closing price and its Comparison with some technical indicators
The stock closed at $16.82, down -0.01 points or -0.06% from previous close and at a distance of -5.70% from 20-day simple moving average. In the last trading session, the stock’s price moved -7.91% below its 200 day moving average, changing hands as low as $16.68 per share. The stock is currently trading -9.05% down its SMA 50.
Find out whether the stock is performing well?
The percentage change in the price over the past fifty two weeks remained at -11.19%. The price range in the same period had a highest hit of $21.30 on Apr 02, 2012 while lowest level during that period was $14.96 on Jul 25, 2012. The 1-year target price estimate, which is the median price target, as set by analysts covering the stock is $22.00. The stock in last 12 months declined -6.35% and has dropped -5.19% since the beginning of this year.
How this stock generally moves along with the stock market?
This stock is more risky when compared to the shifts in the equity markets as its beta value is standing at 1.24. To measure price-variation, we found this stock’s volatility over a week period was 2.75% and for the month was 2.31%.
What analysts think about this stock?
The analyst mean recommendation for this week has been 2.2, same as was in the last week. The price target of $14.00 was the lowest while the highest price target was set as $25.00, according to 37 analysts surveyed by Thomson Reuters.