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Patch Tuesday, January 2020 Edition

January 14, 2020 0 Comments cve-2020-0601, johns hopkins university, kenneth white, matthew green, MongoDB, Qualys, Time to Patch, Windows 10

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2020 02:31:50 +0000

Microsoft today released updates to plug 50 security holes in various flavors of Windows and related software. The patch batch includes a fix for a flaw in Windows 10 and server equivalents of this operating system that prompted an unprecedented public warning from the U.S. National Security Agency. This month also marks the end of mainstream support for Windows 7, a still broadly-used operating system that will no longer be supplied with security updates.

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Avast, NordVPN Breaches Tied to Phantom User Accounts

October 21, 2019 0 Comments avast breach, Data Breaches, filehippo, jaya baloo, kenneth white, nordvpn breach, open crypto audit project, secunia personal software inspector, supply chain attack, techcrunch, zack whittaker

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2019 00:32:57 +0000

Antivirus and security giant Avast and virtual private networking (VPN) software provider NordVPN each today disclosed months-long network intrusions that — while otherwise unrelated — shared a common cause: Forgotten or unknown user accounts that granted remote access to internal systems with little more than a password.