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Microsoft releases emergency patch for PrintNightmare

Microsoft has released an emergency patch that addresses the remote code execution vulnerability in the Windows Print Spooler, known as the PrintNightmare. According to Microsoft in their security advisory: A remote code execution vulnerability exists when the Windows Print Spooler service improperly performs privileged file operations. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could run […]

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NCSC warns of global Russian Cyber Campaign

Articles, Information Assurance / Ian Reynolds

The UK National Cyber Security Centre has issued a stark warning of the dangers posed by an ongoing Russian campaign of cyber espionage and attacks against enterprise systems and cloud environments in Europe and around the world. The Cyber Security Advisory is a joint creation of the NCSC working with the NSA, CISA and FBI

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What is the Kaseya Ransomware attack?

News / Ian Reynolds

Kaseya provides remote management software used by thousands of IT support firms to manage millions of their end users computers. Kaseya was targeted in a supply chain attack to deliver ransomware to a claimed million of their customers computers. Managed Service Providers who provide outsourced IT support for small and medium sized enterprises rely on

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Ransomware is key cyber threat to UK businesses

News, Tools / Ian Reynolds

The CEO of the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre, part of GCHQ, says that the main threat facing UK businesses and consumers is ransomware coming from cyber criminals. This week Lindy Cameron delivered the Annual Security Lecture to the Royal United Services Institute where she stated that: For most UK citizens and businesses, and indeed

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Worlds largest beef supplier hit by ransomware

News / Ian Reynolds

The world’s largest meat producer had to shut down operations in the USA and Australia for several days after a cyberattack at the weekend. JBS Foods operates in 190 countries with 245,000 employees. According to a company statement: On Sunday, May 30, JBS USA determined that it was the target of an organized cybersecurity attack,

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Firefox Fission enhances web security

News, Tools / Ian Reynolds

Firefox has rolled out a new Site Isolation feature that greatly improves the security of the web browser by isolating every domain visited into a separate process. This provides protection against Meltdown and Spectre style attacks and cross site attacks that attempt to thwart the Same-Origin policy. Known internally as Project Fission, this significant development

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What is Mean Time To Inventory?

News / Ian Reynolds

A report from PaloAlto Networks coins a new security metric: Mean Time to Inventory in order to highlight the incredible speed with which attackers are now targeting new vulnerabilities as soon as they are publicly disclosed. The report is based on three month’s monitoring of 50 million IP addresses owned by global enterprises in order

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Criminals favour Microsoft exploits above all

News, Vulnerabilities / Ian Reynolds

New research into the market for exploits on the Dark Web reveals that 61% of exploits sold target Microsoft products including Windows OS, Office, RDP and Internet Explorer. The research presented by Trend Micro at the RSA 2021 Conference this week is the result of a year-long study of 600 dark web forums and markets

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Microsoft and Adobe release patches for zero day vulnerabilities

News, Vulnerabilities / Ian Reynolds

May Patch Tuesday sees four critical vulnerabilities patched by Microsoft and Adobe ships a fix for an Acrobat Reader zero-day that is under attack in the wild. Microsoft Patch Tuesday May 2021 55 vulnerabilities, 4 critical, are resolved in the May security patch bundle from Microsoft. Of particular note are: CVE-2021-31166 which is a Windows

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Users of TOR network hit by man-in-the-middle attacks

News, Vulnerabilities / Ian Reynolds

Over 25% of the TOR network exit nodes have been under the control of malicious actors who are performing man-in-the-middle attacks against network users. What is the TOR Network The TOR Network is a volunteer run network of relay servers that aims to provide anonymous and secure internet access that prevents its users from being

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cyber security news

Microsoft releases emergency patch for PrintNightmare

NCSC warns of global Russian Cyber Campaign

What is the Kaseya Ransomware attack?

Ransomware is key cyber threat to UK businesses

Worlds largest beef supplier hit by ransomware

Firefox Fission enhances web security

What is Mean Time To Inventory?

Criminals favour Microsoft exploits above all

Microsoft and Adobe release patches for zero day vulnerabilities

Users of TOR network hit by man-in-the-middle attacks

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