Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2023 22:51:31 +0000
Microsoft today issued security updates for more than 100 newly-discovered vulnerabilities in its Windows operating system and related software, including four flaws that are already being exploited. In addition, Apple recently released emergency updates to quash a pair of zero-day bugs in iOS.
Read moreCategories: Business Categories: News Tags: blob Tags: SAS Tags: Microsoft Tags: Wiz Tags: secrets Microsoft AI researchers posted a long-living, overly permissive, SAS token on GitHub, exposing 38 TB of data. |
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Read moreCategories: Exploits and vulnerabilities Categories: News Tags: theme Tags: themepack Tags: Microsoft Tags: cve-2023-38146 Tags: msstyles An exploit has been released for a vulnerability in .themes that was patched in the September 2023 Patch Tuesday update. |
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Microsoft released 59 updates in its September Patch Tuesday release, with critical patches for Microsoft Office and Visual Studio, and continued the trend of including non-Microsoft applications in its update cycle. (Notepad++ is a notable addition, with Autodesk returning with a revised bulletin.) We’ve made “Patch Now” recommendations for Microsoft development platforms (Visual Studio) and Microsoft Word.
Unfortunately, updates for Microsoft Exchange Server have also returned, requiring server reboots this time, too.
The team at Readiness has created this infographic outlining the risks associated with each of the September updates.
Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2023 00:22:05 +0000
In December 2022, KrebsOnSecurity broke the news that a cybercriminal using the handle “USDoD” had infiltrated the FBI’s vetted information sharing network InfraGard, and was selling the contact information for all 80,000 members. The FBI responded by reverifying all InfraGard members and by seizing the cybercrime forum where the data was being sold. But on Sept. 11, 2023, USDoD resurfaced after a lengthy absence to leak sensitive employee data stolen from the aerospace giant Airbus, while promising to visit the same treatment on top U.S. defense contractors.
Read moreCategories: Business Categories: Exploits and vulnerabilities Categories: News Tags: Microsoft Tags: Adobe Tags: Android Tags: Apple Tags: Chrome Tags: SAP Tags: Exchange Tags: Visual Studio Tags: CVE-2023-36761 Tags: CVE-2023-36802 Tags: CVE-2023-29332 Tags: Azure Microsoft’s September 2023 Patch Tuesday is another important one. It patches two vulnerabilities which are known to be actively exploited. |
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Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2023 22:36:01 +0000
Microsoft today issued software updates to fix at least five dozen security holes in Windows and supported software, including patches for two zero-day vulnerabilities that are already being exploited. Also, Adobe, Google Chrome and Apple iOS users may have their own zero-day patching to do.
Read moreCategories: News Tags: QR codes Tags: attachment Tags: phishing Tags: Bing Tags: Microsoft Tags: credentials Researchers have been monitoring a phishing campaign that uses QR codes and Bing redirects to lead targets to phishing sites. |
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Hidden in the basic infrastructure that runs the US military is a powerful piece of Windows-borne Chinese malware that can disrupt the communications systems, power grids, and water supplies at the military’s bases around the world. One US congressional aide calls it a “ticking time bomb” that as The New York Times put it, “could give China the power to interrupt or slow American military deployments or resupply operations by cutting off power, water and communications to US military bases.”
Hidden in the basic infrastructure that runs the US military is a powerful piece of Windows-borne Chinese malware that can disrupt the communications systems, power grids, and water supplies at the military’s bases around the world. One US congressional aide calls it a “ticking time bomb” that as The New York Times put it, “could give China the power to interrupt or slow American military deployments or resupply operations by cutting off power, water and communications to US military bases.”