Critical zero-days make September's Patch Tuesday a 'Patch Now' release

With 63 updates affecting Windows, Microsoft Office and the Visual Studio and .NET platforms — and reports of three publicly exploited vulnerabilities (CVE-2022-37969, CVE-2022-34713, CVE-2021-40444) — this month’s Patch Tuesday release gets a “Patch Now” priority. Key testing areas include printing, Microsoft Word, and in general application un-installations. (The Microsoft Office, .NET and browser updates can be added to your standard release schedules.)

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Botched Crypto Mugging Lands Three U.K. Men in Jail

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2022 17:55:25 +0000

Three men in the United Kingdom were arrested this month after police responding to an attempted break-in at a residence stopped their car as they fled the scene. The authorities found weapons and a police uniform in the trunk, and say the trio intended to assault a local man and force him to hand over virtual currencies. 

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Sadly, IT can no longer trust geolocation for much of anything

Credit to Author: eschuman@thecontentfirm.com| Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2022 03:00:00 -0700

Geolocation was once a glorious way to know who your company is dealing with (and sometimes what they are doing). Then VPNs started to undermine that. And now, things have gotten so bad that the Apple App Store and Google Play both offer apps that unashamedly declare they can spoof locations — and neither mobile OS vendor does anything to stop it.

Why? It seems both Apple and Google created the holes these developers are using.

In a nutshell, Apple and Google — to test their apps across various geographies — needed to be able to trick the system into thinking that their developers are wherever they wanted to say that they are. What’s good for the mobile goose, as they say.

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Explained: Fuzzing for security

Categories: Explained

Categories: News

Tags: Fuzzing

Tags: fuzz testing

Tags: memory leaks

Tags: runtime errors

Tags: race conditions

Tags: control flow error

Tags: memory allocation

Tags: buffer overflow

Fuzzing is an automated software testing method that uses a wide range of invalid and unexpected data as input to find flaws.

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Cyber threat hunting for SMBs: How MDR can help

Categories: Business

Threat hunting can weed out malware before anything bad like a data breach can happen, but cyber threat hunting is more difficult for SMBs to do than it is for large organizations due to resource constraints. That’s where Managed Detection and Response (MDR) can help.

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