Microsoft Patch Tuesday for February 2023 — Snort rules and prominent vulnerabilities

Microsoft released its monthly security update on Tuesday, disclosing 73 vulnerabilities. Of these vulnerabilities, 8 are classified as "Critical", 64 are classified as "Important", one vulnerability is classified as "Moderate." According to Microsoft none of the vulnerabilities has been publicly...

Researchers Release PoC Exploit for Windows CryptoAPI Bug Discovered by NSA

Proof-of-concept Poc code has been released for a now-patched high-severity security flaw in the Windows CryptoAPI that the U.S. National Security Agency NSA and the U.K. National Cyber Security Centre NCSC reported to Microsoft last year. Tracked as CVE-2022-34689 CVSS score: 7.5, the spoofing...

Microsoft Patch Tuesday January 2023: ALPC EoP, Win Backup EoP, LocalPotato, Exchange, Remote RCEs

Hello everyone! This episode will be about Microsoft Patch Tuesday for January 2023, including vulnerabilities that were added between December and January Patch Tuesdays. Alternative video link for Russia: As usual, I use my open source Vulristics project to analyse and prioritize vulnerabilitie...

Akamai’s Perspective on January’s Patch Tuesday 2023

Every Patch Tuesday stirs up the community. See Akamai's insights and recommendations on what to focus on, and patch, patch, patch!...

Update now! Patch Tuesday January 2023 includes one actively exploited vulnerability

The first Microsoft Patch Tuesday of 2023 is an important one to start of the year with. In total 98 vulnerabilities were patched, including 11 that were labelled critical and one that is being actively exploited in the wild. This is also the last time we expect to see fixes for Windows 8.1...

Microsoft Issues January 2023 Patch Tuesday Updates, Warns of Zero-Day Exploit

The first Patch Tuesday fixes shipped by Microsoft for 2023 have addressed a total of 98 security flaws, including one bug that the company said is being actively exploited in the wild. 11 of the 98 issues are rated Critical and 87 are rated Important in severity, with one of the vulnerabilities...

Microsoft Issues January 2023 Patch Tuesday Updates, Warns of Zero-Day Exploit

The first Patch Tuesday fixes shipped by Microsoft for 2023 have addressed a total of 98 security flaws, including one bug that the company said is being actively exploited in the wild. 11 of the 98 issues are rated Critical and 87 are rated Important in severity, with one of the vulnerabilities...

Patch Tuesday - January 2023

Microsoft is starting the new year with a bang! Today’s Patch Tuesday release addresses almost 100 CVEs. After a relatively mild holiday season, defenders and admins now have a wide range of exciting new vulnerabilities to consider. Two zero-day vulnerabilities emerged today, both affecting a wid...

Microsoft Patch Tuesday, January 2023 Edition

Microsoft today released updates to fix nearly 100 security flaws in its Windows operating systems and other software. Highlights from the first Patch Tuesday of 2023 include a zero-day vulnerability in Windows, printer software flaws reported by the U.S. National Security Agency, and a critical...

Microsoft Patch Tuesday for January 2023 — Snort rules and prominent vulnerabilities

Microsoft released its monthly security update on Tuesday, disclosing 98 vulnerabilities. Of these vulnerabilities, 11 are classified as "Critical", 87 are classified as "Important", no vulnerability classified as "Moderate." According to Microsoft all "Critical" vulnerability are either less...

Microsoft Patch Tuesday December 2022: SPNEGO RCE, Mark of the Web Bypass, Edge Memory Corruptions

Hello everyone! This episode will be about Microsoft Patch Tuesday for December 2022, including vulnerabilities that were added between November and December Patch Tuesdays. As usual, I use my open source Vulristics project to analyse and prioritize vulnerabilities. Alternative video link for...

Ransomware Hackers Using New Way to Bypass MS Exchange ProxyNotShell Mitigations

Threat actors affiliated with a ransomware strain known as Play are leveraging a never-before-seen exploit chain that bypasses blocking rules for ProxyNotShell flaws in Microsoft Exchange Server to achieve remote code execution RCE through Outlook Web Access OWA. "The new exploit method bypasses...

Samba Issues Security Updates to Patch Multiple High-Severity Vulnerabilities

Samba has released software updates to remediate multiple vulnerabilities that, if successfully exploited, could allow an attacker to take control of affected systems. The high-severity flaws, tracked as CVE-2022-38023, CVE-2022-37966, CVE-2022-37967, and CVE-2022-45141, have been patched in...

Akamai’s Perspective on December’s Patch Tuesday 2022

Every Patch Tuesday stirs up the community. See Akamai's December insights and recommendations on what to focus on, and patch, patch, patch!...

Citrix ADC and Gateway Zero-Day Vulnerability Exploited by APT5

Threat Level Attack Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary Patch Tuesday for December tackles two zero-day vulnerabilities, one of which is being actively exploited CVE-2022-44698 and another that was publicly disclosed at the time of release CVE-2022-44710, alo...

Microsoft Patch Tuesday, December 2022 Edition

Microsoft has released its final monthly batch of security updates for 2022, fixing more than four dozen security holes in its various Windows operating systems and related software. The most pressing patches include a zero-day in a Windows feature that tries to flag malicious files from the Web,...

December 2022 Patch Tuesday: Get Latest Security Updates from Microsoft and More

Tech giant Microsoft released its last set of monthly security updates for 2022 with fixes for 49 vulnerabilities across its software products. Of the 49 bugs, six are rated Critical, 40 are rated Important, and three are rated Moderate in severity. The updates are in addition to 24 vulnerabiliti...

Patch Tuesday - December 2022

As far as Patch Tuesdays go, defenders have a relatively light month to close out the year with only 48 CVEs being published by Microsoft today. This does not include the 24 previously disclosed vulnerabilities affecting their Chromium-based Edge browser. There are two zero-days in the mix today...

Microsoft Patch Tuesday for December 2022 — Snort rules and prominent vulnerabilities

Microsoft released its monthly security update on Tuesday, disclosing 48 vulnerabilities. Of these vulnerabilities, 6 are classified as "Critical", 41 are classified as "Important", with the remaining vulnerability classified as "Moderate." One of the critical vulnerabilities, which Microsoft...

Security advisories are falling short. Here's why, with Dustin Childs: Lock and Code S03E25

Decades ago, patching was, to lean into a corny joke, a bit patchy. In the late 90s, the Microsoft operating system OS Windows 98 had a supportive piece of software that would find security patches for the OS so that users could then download those patches and deploy them to their computers. That...