August 2019 Patch Tuesday – 93 Vulns, 29 Critical, 7 Remote Desktop Vulns, Hyper-V, DHCP, Adobe vulns

Update Aug 13, 2019: Detect and Patch Windows Remote Desktop Vulnerabilities This month’s Microsoft Patch Tuesday addresses 93 vulnerabilities with 29 of them labeled as Critical. Of the 29 Critical vulns, 10 are for scripting engines and browsers, 6 for Windows Graphics/Font Library, and 4 are f...

Microsoft Releases July 2019 Security Updates, 2 Flaws Under Active Attack

Microsoft today released its monthly batch of software security updates for the July month to patch a total of 77 vulnerabilities, 14 are rated Critical, 62 are Important, and 1 is rated Moderate in severity. The July 2019 security updates include patches for various supported versions of Windows...

Mozilla Firefox Security Advisories (MFSA2019-06, MFSA2019-08) - Windows

Mozilla Firefox is prone to multiple vulnerabilities. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2019 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only CPE = "cpe:/a:mozilla:firefox";...

February 12, 2019—KB4487019 (Security-only update)

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January 8, 2019—KB4480116 (OS Build 17763.253)

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Microsoft Issues Software Updates for 17 Critical Vulnerabilities

Times to gear up your systems and software. Just a few minutes ago Microsoft released its latest monthly Patch Tuesday update for September 2018, patching a total of 61 security vulnerabilities, 17 of which are rated as critical, 43 are rated Important, and one Moderate in severity. This month's...

McAfee Night Dragon Report (Update A)

Overview McAfee has published a white paper titled “Global Energy Cyberattacks: Night Dragon,”McAfee, http://www.mcafee.com/us/resources/white-papers/wp-global-energy-cyberattacks-night-dragon.pdf, accessed February 10, 2011. which describes advanced persistent threat activity designed to obtain...

Microsoft June 2018 Patch Tuesday Pushes 11 Critical Security Updates

It's time to gear up for the latest June 2018 Microsoft security patch updates. Microsoft today released security patch updates for more than 50 vulnerabilities, affecting Windows, Internet Explorer, Edge, MS Office, MS Office Exchange Server, ChakraCore, and Adobe Flash Player—11 of which are...

May 8, 2018—KB4103730 (Monthly Rollup)

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MS09-012: Vulnerabilities in Windows could allow elevation of privilege

Resolves vulnerabilities in Windows that could allow elevation of privilege if an attacker is allowed to log on to the system and then run a specially crafted application.Support for Windows Vista Service Pack 1 SP1 ends on July 12, 2011. To continue receiving security updates for Windows, make...

CVE-2018-0942

Internet Explorer in Microsoft Windows 7 SP1, Windows Server 2008 SP2 and R2 SP1, Windows 8.1 and Windows RT 8.1, Windows Server 2012 and R2, Windows 10 Gold, 1511, 1607, 1703, 1709, and Windows Server 2016 allow elevation of privilege, due to how Internet Explorer handles zone and integrity...

November 14, 2017—KB4048953 (OS Build 14393.1884)

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Back to Basics: Worm Defense in the Ransomware Age

This post was authored by Edmund Brumaghin "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." - George SantayanaThe PrequelIn March 2017, Microsoft released a security update for various versions of Windows, which addressed a remote code execution vulnerability affecting a protocol...

Vulnerability of the Microsoft Office software package, the Microsoft Silverlight software platform, and the Word document viewing tool – Microsoft Office Word Viewer. Also vulnerable are the Microsoft Windows operating system, and the Microsoft Lync and Skype for Business instant messaging applications. These vulnerabilities allow attackers to inject arbitrary code into these systems.

The vulnerabilities of the Microsoft Office software package, the Microsoft Silverlight software platform, and the Word document viewing tool – Microsoft Office Word Viewer – as well as the Microsoft Windows operating system, and the Microsoft Lync and Skype for Business instant messaging...

Eternal Champion Exploit Analysis

Recently, a group named the ShadowBrokers published several remote server exploits targeting various protocols on older versions of Windows. In this post we are going to look at the EternalChampion exploit in detail to see what vulnerabilities it exploited, how it exploited them, and how the late...

VulnCheck KEV: CVE-2004-0116

An Activation function in the RPCSS Service involved with DCOM activation for Microsoft Windows 2000, XP, and 2003 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service memory consumption via an activation request with a large length field...

CVE-2017-8477

Microsoft Windows 7 SP1, Windows Server 2008 SP2 and R2 SP1, Windows 8.1 and Windows RT 8.1, Windows Server 2012 and R2, Windows 10 Gold, 1511, 1607, and 1703, and Windows Server 2016 allow an authenticated attacker to run a specially crafted application when the Windows kernel improperly...

Microsoft Malware Protection Engine Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems released by Microsoft, Microsoft Forefront is a set of enterprise-oriented server security features applied to it.Microsoft Defender is an antivirus software applied to it. A remote code execution vulnerability exists in Microsoft Forefront and...

ShadowBrokers Put Price on Monthly Zero Day Leaks

The threat posed by the first wave of ShadowBrokers leaks of Equation Group hacking tools was relatively benign. Some vendors had to scramble to patch zero days in older versions of products, but for the most part, the leaks and accompanying auction were more of a novelty. That obviously changed...

Equation and a wave of massive 0day attacks leaks, Microsoft this minor vaginal bleeding-exploit warning-the black bar safety net

Early in the morning get up and think of Sunny days still good? However cyberspace just gave birth to a wave of bomb has a blast! Shadow Brokers again leaked out a shocked the world of confidential documents, which contains a plurality of fine Windows Remote exploit tools, and can cover over 70% ...