Defending Against Scheduled Task Attacks in Windows Environments

Scheduling tasks is one of the most popular attack techniques used by threat actors to establish persistence on a victim’s machine. The Qualys Research Team investigated different ways that attackers could use to conceal scheduled tasks. In this blog, we describe three new techniques to hide and...

2020-03 Cumulative Update for Windows 10 Version 1703 for x64-based Systems (KB4540705)

A security issue has been identified in a Microsoft software product that could affect your system. You can help protect your system by installing this update from Microsoft. For a complete listing of the issues that are included in this update, see the associated Microsoft Knowledge Base article...

Veeam ONE installation fails with "Couldn't create crypto provider" message

Challenge Veeam ONE installation fails with "Couldn't create crypto provider" message. Cause One of the known issues with Microsoft update 3000850 as per this MS KB article is the following: Opening Credential Manager fails with error 0x80090345", that also affects creating the crypto provider...

IE VBScript Handling patch (Q318089)

Incorrect VBScript Handling in IE can Allow Web Pages to Read Local Files. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2002 Michael Scheidell 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 ifdescription...

2023-01 Cumulative Update for Windows 11 Version 22H2 for arm64-based Systems (KB5022303) UUP

Install this update to resolve issues in Windows. For a complete listing of the issues that are included in this update, see the associated Microsoft Knowledge Base article for more information. After you install this item, you may have to restart your computer...