New versions have been released for the four popular implementations of VNC after Kaspersky discovered thirty-seven vulnerabilities in the software VNC (or Virtual Network Computing) is a system that allows one device to access the screen and control the keyboard and mouse of another device. Using the Remote Frame Buffer (RFB) protocol, VNC has been […]
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HP has issued a critical firmware update for a large number of their SSD drives which will fail after 32768 hours of operation. The defect in the firmware for the SSD drives will cause them to fail and all data on the drive to be permanently lost after 32,768 hours of operation. That’s 3 years,
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There are just two patch Tuesdays left until Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 reach their end of support cut off in January 2020. Organisations that are unable (or unwilling) to make the leap to Windows 10 do have the option to purchase extended support from Microsoft. Exactly how Volume Licensing customers can do this
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Bluekeep is serious vulnerability in the RDP protocol affecting Windows systems. After months of waiting, active exploits have now been spotted in the wild for the first time, attempting to install cryptomining malware on the vulnerable systems. Security researcher Kevin Beaumont has been running a network of honeypots in an attempt to capture Bluekeep malware in
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The September Patch Tuesday release from Microsoft included 18 critical fixes and 79 in total. The fixes include several Remote Code Execution vulnerabilities: RDP client-side remote code execution vulnerabilities Four remote code execution vulnerabilities were fixed in the Remote Desktop Services client. If a user can be tricked into connecting to a malicious RDP server
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Symantec Endpoint Protection for Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2 is blocking Windows updates since August 2019. Back in April 2019 we reported that Microsoft planned to amend the way it digitally signed Windows updates in order to protect against supply chain attacks and ensure only valid, unmodified Microsoft issued patches are installed. This change
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A potential remote code execution vulnerability has been discovered in the popular GPL-licensed FTP server ProFTPD ProFTPD is running on over a million servers exposed to the internet. It is included in several Linux distros including Debian, Suse and Ubuntu. The flaw, tracked under CVE-2019-12815 lives in the mod_copy module. The flaw allows an unauthenticated user to
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Microsoft’s July Patch Tuesday updates resolve 77 vulnerabilities in Windows software, including two zero-day vulnerabilities which are being actively exploited and remote code execution vulnerabilities in DHCP Server and MS SQL Server. DHCP Server RCE vulnerability If you have your Microsoft DHCP server configured with a failover server, an attacker can send a specially crafted
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Since early May, the city of Baltimore has struggled to recover IT systems following a ransomware attack that has left many departments unable to function or even send and receive emails. Citizens have been unable to complete house sales, pay their water bills or receive health alerts. The RobbinHood malware that has attacked the city’s
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The world’s most popular mail server is vulnerable to a remote command execution flaw Exim is the world’s most popular mail server, with 57% of the mail servers connected to the web running Exim (as of June 2019). The vulnerability reported by Qualys (CVE-2019-10149) affects Exim versions 4.87 to 4.91 inclusive running on several Linux
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