Microsoft Adds Default Protection Against RDP Brute-Force Attacks in Windows 11

Microsoft is now taking steps to prevent Remote Desktop Protocol RDP brute-force attacks as part of the latest builds for the Windows 11 operating system in an attempt to raise the security baseline to meet the evolving threat landscape. To that end, the default policy for Windows 11 builds –...

Description of the security update for Office 2016: June 9, 2020

Description of the security update for Office 2016: June 9, 2020 Summary This update resolves a security feature bypass vulnerability that exists if Microsoft Outlook or another relevant product does not enforce security settings that are configured on a system. To learn more about the...

Visual Basic - 'vbe6.dll' Local Stack Overflow (PoC) / Denial of Service

Stack overflow in vbe6.dll, used by all versions of MS Office The overflow occurs in Visual Basic for Application. Creating a property with a long name about 247 chars results in a stack overflow in vbe6.dll which overwrites with a null byte the first byte of the return address. Probably impossib...