Windows Lockscreen Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when Windows Lockscreen fails to properly load spotlight images from a secure location. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could execute commands with elevated permissions. An authenticated attacker could modify a registry value...

How to Collect Veeam ONE SMTP Logging

Purpose This article provides information on enabling extended SMTP email logging, which is necessary when investigating issues with Veeam ONE emails, such as missed alarm notifications, unexpected email content, or other email-related problems. SMTP logging is not enabled by default and must be...

Microsoft Exchange Server Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in Microsoft Exchange Server. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could attempt to impersonate any other user of the Exchange server. To exploit the vulnerability, an attacker would need to execute a man-in-the-middle attack to...

Error: Backup proxy is missing C++ runtime components

Article Applicability The error message states that the C++ runtime components are missing, which may be inaccurate. The actual cause of the error is that the VDDK libraries cannot be loaded, which in older versions of Veeam Backup & Replication 9.5 and older was caused by missing C++ runtimes...

Windows Defender Firewall: Prohibit notifications

This test checks the setting for policy OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: winadvsecprofilenotification.nasl 10010 2018-05-29 14:43:35Z emoss $ Check value for Windows Defender Firewall: Prohibit notifications Authors: Emanuel Moss Copyright: Copyright c 2018 Greenbone Networks GmbH,...

Windows Defender Firewall: Outbound connections

This test checks the setting for policy OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: winadvsecprofileoutboundcon.nasl 10010 2018-05-29 14:43:35Z emoss $ Check value for Windows Defender Firewall: Domain: Outbound connections Authors: Emanuel Moss Copyright: Copyright c 2018 Greenbone Networks GmbH,...

Windows Defender Firewall: Logfile path

This test checks the setting for policy OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: winadvsecprofilelogfilepath.nasl 10010 2018-05-29 14:43:35Z emoss $ Check value for Windows Defender Firewall: Path to logfile Authors: Emanuel Moss Copyright: Copyright c 2018 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.ne...

Windows Defender Firewall: firewall profiles status.

This test checks the setting for policy OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: winadvsecprofilestatus.nasl 10010 2018-05-29 14:43:35Z emoss $ Check value for Windows Defender Firewall: Enable Firewall Authors: Emanuel Moss Copyright: Copyright c 2018 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net Thi...

Synaptics Says Claims of a Keylogger in HP Laptops are False

Synaptics said reports that claim hundreds of HP laptops contain a secret keylogger made by the company are inaccurate. In a statement released Wednesday, the company said its software was being mischaracterized as a keylogger. It also said it would remove the debugging component from production...

Description of the security update for Outlook 2013: June 13, 2017

Description of the security update for Outlook 2013: June 13, 2017 Summary This security update resolves vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office that could allow remote code execution if a user opens a specially crafted Office file. To learn more about these vulnerabilities, see Microsoft Common...

Scale-Out Backup Repository Free Space Calculation

Challenge Jobs running to a Scale-Out Backup Repository report "No scale-out repository extents have sufficient disk space to store the backup file, " even though some of the extents have adequate free space. Cause At the beginning of a job, if no other jobs are running, Veeam Backup & Replicatio...

WinSparkle issue where registry value is not validated

Overview When an application that uses WinSparkle is launched, it checks the directory used by WinSparkle for temporary files and deletes any temporary files. This directory path is specified in a registry key. In a situation where an attacker has modified the specific registry value used by this...

Latest TeslaCrypt Targets New File Extensions, Invests Heavily in Evasion

TeslaCrypt, like many of its ransomware cousins, doesn’t sleep on past success. Researchers at Endgame Inc., have found two updates for the cryptoransomware in the past two weeks that invest heavily in obfuscation and evasion techniques, and also target a host of new file extensions. These sample...

How to exclude MS SQL Databases from SQL Log backup

Challenge It is necessary to exclude specific databases on one or more Microsoft SQL Server instances from Veeam SQL Transaction Log backup processing. Solution The following registry value is used to exclude databases from SQL Transaction Log backup. The exclusion will take effect during the nex...

How to Change the Veeam ONE Monitor Performance Cache Location

Purpose This article documents how to change the location where Veeam ONE stores the performance cache data. Solution Method 1: Change Performance Cache Location via the Settings Utility Veeam ONE Server Settings Performance Cache Method 2: Change Performance Cache Location via Registry Value 1. ...

Network name cannot contains the following symbols: ~`!@#$%^&*+=;'><|?*:"

Challenge When attempting to assign an Isolated Network name, the following error occurs: Network name cannot contains the following symbols: !@$%^&+=;'|?:" To allow a specific symbol, remove that symbol from the va...

How to Disable IPv6

You can disable IPv6 on the host computer through theDisabledComponents registry value. TheDisabledComponents registry value affects all network interfaces on the host. Important Follow the steps in this section carefully. Serious problems might occur if you modify the registry incorrectly. Befor...

Network traffic encryption enabled within job when no rule has been set and the Veeam server has a Public IP

Challenge During the processing of a VM by Veeam Backup & Replication on a server with a Public IP, the notification stating "Network traffic will be encrypted" is shown even though no rule is in place within the network traffic rules. Cause By default Veeam Backup & Replication enables encryptio...

Zoner Photo Studio 15 Build 3 (Zps.exe) - Registry Value Parsing Exploit

No description provided by source. !/usr/bin/python Exploit Title: Zoner Photo Studio v15 Build 3 Zps.exe Registry Value Parsing Local Buffer Overflow Version: 15 Build 3, Build 2 Date: 2012-11-09 Author: Julien Ahrens Homepage: http://www.inshell.net Software Link: http://www.zoner.com Tested on...

Bitsmith PS Knowbase 3.2.3 - Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

No description provided by source. Title: ====== Bitsmith PS Knowbase 3.2.3 - Buffer Overflow Vulnerability Date: ===== 2012-03-29 References: =========== http://www.vulnerability-lab.com/getcontent.php?id=474 VL-ID: ===== 474 Introduction: ============= Personal Knowbase is a program for...