Microsoft Netlogon Vulnerability (CVE-2020-1472 – Zerologon) – Automatically Discover, Prioritize and Remediate Using Qualys VMDR®

Update October 1, 2020: Microsoft has added step-by-step Zerologon patching instructions because the original instructions "proved confusing to users and may have caused issues with other business operations." Update October 1, 2020: Qualys released new QID 91680 to add a remote unauthenticated...

NSA Announces Sandworm Actors Exploiting Exim MTA Vulnerability (CVE-2019-10149)

The Exim MTA vulnerability, initially reported by Qualys in May 2019, is currently being exploited in the wild. Recently, the US National Security Agency NSA announced that Sandworm actors Russian hacker group have been actively exploiting the Exim Mail Transfer Agent vulnerability. Qualys releas...

Cynet Offers Free Threat Assessment for Mid-sized and Large Organizations

Visibility into an environment attack surface is the fundamental cornerstone to sound security decision making. However, the standard process of 3rd party threat assessment as practiced today is both time consuming and expensive. Cynet changes the rules of the game with a free threat assessment...

Microsoft Addresses Active Attacks, Air-Gap Danger with 99 Patches

Microsoft has issued one of its largest Patch Tuesday updates for the shortest month of the year, addressing 99 security vulnerabilities across a range of products. Twelve of the bugs are listed as critical – and the rest are rated as being important. The update includes a patch for the zero-day...

Update Windows 10 Immediately to Patch a Flaw Discovered by the NSA

After Adobe today releases its first Patch Tuesday updates for 2020, Microsoft has now also published its January security advisories warning billions of users of 49 new vulnerabilities in its various products. What's so special about the latest Patch Tuesday is that one of the updates fixes a...

Microsoft Guidance for Vulnerability in Trusted Platform Module (TPM)

Executive Summary This advisory addresses CVE-2019-16863. A security vulnerability exists in certain Trusted Platform Module TPM chipsets. The vulnerability weakens key confidentiality protection for a specific algorithm ECDSA. It is important to note that this is a TPM firmware vulnerability, an...

Cynet Free IR Tool Offering Empowers Responders to Know and Act Against Active Attacks

The saying that there are two types of organizations, those that have gotten breached and those who have but just don’t know it yet, has never been more relevant, making sound incident response a required capability in any organization’s security stack. To assist in this critical mission, Cynet i...

December 2018 Patch Tuesday – 39 Vulns, Workstation Patches, Adobe Vulns

This month’s Patch Tuesday addresses 39 vulnerabilities, with 9 of them labeled as Critical. Out of the Criticals, most are browser-related, with the rest including Windows, and .net Framework. A Privilege Escalation vulnerability exists in Windows kernel which has been exploited in wild. Adobe...

November 2018 Patch Tuesday – 62 Vulns, TFTP Server RCE, Adobe PoC

This month's Patch Tuesday addresses 62 vulnerabilities, with 12 of them labeled as Critical. Out of the Criticals, 8 are for the Chakra Scripting Engine used by Microsoft Edge. A Remote Code Execution vulnerability in Windows Deployment Services' TFTP server is also addressed in this release...

August Patch Tuesday – 63 Vulns, L1TF (Foreshadow), Exchange, SQL, Active Attacks on IE flaw

In this month's Patch Tuesday release there are 63 vulnerabilities patched with 20 Criticals. Out of the criticals, over half are browser-related, with the rest including Windows, SQL, and Exchange. Active exploits have been detected against CVE-2018-8373, one of the scripting engine...

What You Should Know About Side-Channel Attacks, Like Meltdown

“The light is on in their window. They must be home.” This is a classic example of a side information channel. They didn’t TELL you they were home. But the side effect of them being home in the evening is the light in the window — which is how you’re pretty sure they are home even though this...

shibboleth2-sp -- "Dynamic" metadata provider plugin issue

The Internet2 community reports: The Shibboleth Service Provider software includes a MetadataProvider plugin with the plugin type "Dynamic" to obtain metadata on demand from a query server, in place of the more typical mode of downloading aggregates separately containing all of the metadata to...

Mazar Bot Actively Targeting Android Devices

Nearly three months after it was spotted for sale in a Russian hacker forum, the Mazar bot has been put to use in active attacks targeting Android devices. Researchers at Heimdal Security said on Friday the bot is being sent to Android users via SMS and MMS messages and if the victim executes the...

Tcpcrypt - Encrypting the Internet

Tcpcrypt is a protocol that attempts to encrypt almost all of your network traffic. Unlike other security mechanisms, Tcpcrypt works out of the box: it requires no configuration, no changes to applications, and your network connections will continue to work even if the remote end does not support...

Metasploit Exploit Module for IE Zero-Day Vulnerability

It’s been 14 days since Microsoft issued an advisory and temporary mitigation for a zero-day vulnerability in Internet Explorer, one being actively exploited in the wild and called by some experts as severe a browser bug as you can have. Yet users have since had little more to shield them from...

Relax, You Don't Have to Fix Every Vulnerability

Here’s an idea: stop fixing every vulnerability you read about. The best thing to do, it turns out, is to look at the vulnerabilities that are in both Metasploit and the Exploit Database and fix those. That gives you the highest chance of fixing bugs that are likely to be used in an actual attack...

Microsoft Releases Security Advisory on Fraudulent Digital Certificates

Microsoft has released Security Advisory 2798897 in response to active attacks using fraudulent digital certificates issued by TURKTRUST Inc. These fraudulent certificates could be used to spoof content, perform phishing attacks, or perform man-in-the-middle attacks. This vulnerability affects al...

Microsoft Fraudulent Digital Certificates Spoofing (2718704)

A security breach has been reported in Microsoft Windows. Two unauthorized certificates that have been issued by Microsoft are being used in active attacks. An unauthorized certificate could be used to spoof content, perform phishing attacks, or perform man-in-the-middle attacks. This issue affec...

Encrypt Your Network Traffic: Tcpcrypt

Tcpcrypt is a protocol that attempts to encrypt almost all of your network traffic. Unlike other security mechanisms, Tcpcrypt works out of the box: it requires no configuration, no changes to applications, and your network connections will continue to work even if the remote end does not support...

Adobe to Patch Critical Reader, Acrobat Flaw

Adobe on Tuesday will release the patches for the critical authplay.dll vulnerability in Reader and Acrobat that was disclosed earlier this month. The company already has issued a patch for the same flaw in Flash. The patches for Adobe Reader and Acrobat are being pushed out two weeks ahead of th...