Windows Remote Desktop Vulnerabilities (Seven Monkeys) – How to Detect and Patch

In the August 2019 Patch Tuesday release, Microsoft disclosed 7 RDP Vulnerabilities, out of which 4 are labeled as critical and 3 as important. All the critical vulnerabilities exist in Remote Desktop Services – formerly known as Terminal Services – and do not require authentication or user...

Microsoft Announces Top Three Contributing Partners in the Microsoft Active Protections Program (MAPP)

Today Microsoft announced the MAPP program Top Vulnerability Contributors, Top Threat Indicator Submitters, and Top Zero-Day Reporting for the period of July 1, 2018 – June 30, 2019. The Microsoft Active Protections Program provides security and protection to customers through cooperation and...

A case study in industry collaboration: Poisoned RDP vulnerability disclosure and response

Earlier this year, I reached out to Check Point researcher Eyal Itkin, who had published multiple flaws in several Remote Desktop Protocol RDP clients, including a vulnerability in mstsc.exe, the built-in RDP client application in Windows. While there were no active exploits detected in the wild,...

APT41: A Dual Espionage and Cyber Crime Operation

Today, FireEye Intelligence is releasing a comprehensive report detailing APT41, a prolific Chinese cyber threat group that carries out state-sponsored espionage activity in parallel with financially motivated operations. APT41 is unique among tracked China-based actors in that it leverages...

NVIDIA Windows GPU Display Driver Vulnerabilities - Lenovo Support US

Lenovo Security Advisory: LEN-28096 Potential Impact: Code execution, denial of service, privilege escalation, information disclosure Severity: High Scope of Impact: Industry-wide CVE Identifier: CVE-2019-5683, CVE-2019-5684, CVE-2019-5685, CVE-2019-5686, CVE-2019-5687 Summary Description: NVIDIA...

Code Execution Vulnerability in ZZCMS2019

ZZCMS with product investment templates, you can quickly build product investment website. For example, the pharmaceutical investment industry, health care investment industry, cosmetics investment industry, agricultural investment industry, pregnancy and child investment industry, alcohol and fo...

ThreatList: DMARC Adoption Nonexistent at 80% of Orgs

About 80 percent of company web domains don’t have standard email authentication protections in place. That’s according to 250ok’s Global DMARC Adoption 2019 report, which analyzed 25,700 domains in the education, e-commerce, legal, financial services, SaaS and nonprofit sectors, as well as the...

Gamers Are Easy Prey for Credential Thieves

Gamers are soft targets for credential-thieving hackers who see them as young, naive and playing it fast and loose with security. “A 14-year-old kid’s gaming credentials are worth more than you think,” said Mike Wilson, CTO at Enzoic. He said credentials tied to Fortnite, Minecraft and RuneScape...

Microsoft Announces Top Contributing Partners in the Microsoft Active Protections Program (MAPP)

Today we announce the top organizational candidates for Vulnerability Top Contributors, Threat Indicator Top Submitters, and Zero-Day Top Reporting for the period of July 1, 2018 – June 30, 2019. The Microsoft Active Protections Program provides security and protection to customers through...

Microsoft Announces Top Contributing Partners in the Microsoft Active Protections Program (MAPP)

Today we announce the top organizational candidates for Vulnerability Top Contributors, Threat Indicator Top Submitters, and Zero-Day Top Reporting for the period of July 1, 2018 – June 30, 2019. The Microsoft Active Protections Program provides security and protection to customers through...

Microsoft Announces Top Contributing Partners in the Microsoft Active Protections Program (MAPP)

Today we announce the top organizational candidates for Vulnerability Top Contributors, Threat Indicator Top Submitters, and Zero-Day Top Reporting for the period of July 1, 2018 – June 30, 2019. The Microsoft Active Protections Program provides security and protection to customers through...

Qualys Policy Compliance Notification: Policy Library Updates (June)

Qualys’ library of built-in policies makes it easy to comply with the security standards and regulations that are most commonly used and adhered to. Qualys provides a wide range of policies, including many that have been certified by CIS as well as the ones based on security guidelines from OS an...

New 3-Second DDoS Mitigation SLA is 3x Faster and the Industry’s Best

Back in 2018, we made waves with a groundbreaking DDoS Mitigation SLA service level agreement for our DDoS Protection service that guaranteed to mitigate DDoS attacks in under 10 seconds. Now, we’ve upped the ante to ensure DDoS attack mitigation with a new, industry-best three seconds-or-less...

Hard Pass: Declining APT34’s Invite to Join Their Professional Network

Background With increasing geopolitical tensions in the Middle East, we expect Iran to significantly increase the volume and scope of its cyber espionage campaigns. Iran has a critical need for strategic intelligence and is likely to fill this gap by conducting espionage against decision makers a...

Intel SSD DC S4500/S4600 Series Vulnerability - US

Lenovo Security Advisory: LEN-28116 Potential Impact: Privilege escalation Severity: Medium Scope of Impact: Industry-wide CVE Identifier: CVE-2018-18095 Summary Description: Intel has reported a potential security vulnerability in Intel Solid State Drives SSD for Data Centers DC S4500/S4600 Seri...

Qualys Policy Compliance Notification: Policy Library Updates (April, May)

Qualys’ library of built-in policies makes it easy to comply with the security standards and regulations that are most commonly used and adhered to. Qualys provides a wide range of policies, including many that have been certified by CIS as well as the ones based on security guidelines from OS an...

Migrating Network Protection to the Cloud with Confidence

For modern organizations, speed and agility is the key to success – built on enhanced IT efficiency and performance driven by the cloud. Anything less could see your business outpaced by the competition. As always, security must be a priority when migrating to the cloud, but network teams are bei...

Preparing for PCI DSS 4.0

PCI DSS 4.0 is currently in its request for comments RFC process, where the industry can provide comments and feedback to help shape the next iteration. This process is initially open to the participating organizations - members that help steer and inform the PCI SSC based on their experiences. T...

Addressing the Cyber Security Skills Gap, Part 1

Operating in an adversarial driven world, cyber defenders are faced with many obstacles. In effort to keep pace with our adversarial counterpart, the cyber security skills gap has become the silent oppressor. In Part 1 of this multi-part blog series we will define the implications presented by th...

Mobile app building is simple and affordable – the Appy Pie way!

By Owais Sultan Steve Jobs had it right! There is an app for everything and businesses today, big and small, are realizing it. Mobile apps, in their limited time of existence, have made a massive impact on the industry and creating mobile apps is not limited to just the big leagues. This is a pos...