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Home 2022 January

What is Moonbounce Malware?

By Mark Faithfull | Articles, Information Assurance | 29 January, 2022 | 0

The MoonBounce UEFI malware hit the headlines due to the novel way it hides from anti-virus software. UEFI malware is on the rise – but what is it, and how can you protect your network from this sophisticated security threat?   Securing the Operating System The UEFI standard (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) defines the wayRead more

Apple patches Zero day iPhone and Mac exploits

By Mark Faithfull | News, Vulnerabilities | 27 January, 2022 | 0

Apple has released iOS 15.3 and Monterey 12.2 which resolve a bundle of security vulnerabilities including a pair of Zero-day exploits iOS patches iOS 15.3 and iPadOS 15.3 (released on 26th January 2022) contain fixes for a total of 10 security vulnerabilities including CVE-2022-22587. Apple advises that they are ‘aware of a report that this issueRead more

PwnKit Vulnerability affects every major Linux distro

By Mark Faithfull | News, Vulnerabilities | 27 January, 2022 | 0

A 12 year old bug has been discovered in the Linux pkexec utility which allows any unprivileged user to gain full root privileges on a vulnerable host. The new report from security researchers at Qualys explains how the vulnerability can be exploited. In summary the vulnerability, dubbed PwnKit, allows any unprivileged user to gain fullRead more

Chrome leads the way with security changes

By Mark Faithfull | News, Tools | 19 January, 2022 | 0

Starting in March 2022, Google Chrome will start supporting the new Private Network Access standard which will help protect local network devices from malicious internet traffic. Private Network Access, or PNA, will prevent malicious websites from using the victim’s browser as a proxy to relay cross-site request forgery attempts to devices on the user’s localRead more

NetUSB RCE Flaw in Millions of End User Routers

By Mark Faithfull | News, Vulnerabilities | 19 January, 2022 | 0

Millions of routers are affected by a high severity flaw in the NetUSB module which is used by many vendors including NETGEAR, TP-Link, and Dlink. NetUSB is developed by Kcodes and is licensed to many device manufacturers. It enables remote network devices to connect to USB peripherals which are plugged into the router – typicallyRead more

What is a SIM swap attack?

By Mark Faithfull | Articles, Social Engineering | 15 January, 2022 | 0

A SIM swap attack happens when a criminal uses social engineering to gain control of a victim’s mobile phone number so that SMS and calls made to the victim are received by the criminal.  This then enables the criminal to impersonate the victim and perpetuate further fraud and attacks. What is a SIM? Mobile phoneRead more

Senior Penetration Tester

By Ian Reynolds | Jobs | 13 January, 2022 | 0

To help support our sustained growth, SecureTeam are currently on the lookout for an experienced cybersecurity consultant to join our  penetration testing team. We are a relatively small cybersecurity practice (based on the south coast of England), that genuinely strives to put our staff before profits. We pride ourselves in cultivating a friendly work environment,Read more

Microsoft January Patch Tuesday

By Mark Faithfull | News, Vulnerabilities | 12 January, 2022 | 0

The New Year gets off to a busy start for Microsoft with the first security patch updates resolving over 100 vulnerabilities including six zero-days and one critical flaw identified as wormable. A wormable vulnerability can be exploited with no human intervention allowing malware to move from one computer to another across your network.  This flawRead more

Google Docs phishing emails hard to spot

By Mark Faithfull | News | 7 January, 2022 | 0

December saw a rise in Google Docs being used to send malicious emails as threat actors abused the comments feature to send messages which are hard to differentiate from legitimate messages from colleagues. According to a new report from security firm Avanan, the comments feature of Google Docs and Google Sheets can be abused toRead more

Y2K22 Bugs hit Microsoft and Honda

By Mark Faithfull | News | 6 January, 2022 | 0

Customers of Microsoft Exchange Servers and some Honda motor vehicles experienced unusual errors with the turn of the year as software failed to handle the year 2022 when the date rolled over. Microsoft Exchange Server bug The FIP-FS anti-spam and anti-malware service has been enabled by default on all Exchange Servers since Exchange 2013 wasRead more

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