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Microsoft enforces defenses preventing NTLM relay attacks

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Microsoft enforces defenses preventing NTLM relay attacks 2024-12-11 at 15:03 By Zeljka Zorz Since making Kerberos the default Windows authentication protocol in 2000, Microsoft has been working on eventually retiring NTLM, its less secure and obsolete counterpart. Until NTLM gets disabled by default, Microsoft is working on shoring up defenses against NTLM relay attacks. How […]

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17,000+ Microsoft Exchange servers in Germany are vulnerable to attack, BSI warns

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17,000+ Microsoft Exchange servers in Germany are vulnerable to attack, BSI warns 2024-03-26 at 15:31 By Zeljka Zorz Around 12% of the 45,000 or so Microsoft Exchange servers in Germany that can be accessed from the Internet without restrictions “are so outdated that security updates are no longer offered for them,” the German Federal Office

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March 2024 Patch Tuesday: Microsoft fixes critical bugs in Windows Hyper-V

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March 2024 Patch Tuesday: Microsoft fixes critical bugs in Windows Hyper-V 2024-03-12 at 22:11 By Zeljka Zorz On this March 2024 Patch Tuesday, Microsoft has released fixes for 59 CVE-numbered vulnerabilities, but – welcome news! – none of them are currently publicly known or actively exploited. Last month, though, several days after Patch Tuesday, the

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Microsoft patches two zero-days exploited by attackers (CVE-2024-21412, CVE-2024-21351)

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Microsoft patches two zero-days exploited by attackers (CVE-2024-21412, CVE-2024-21351) 2024-02-13 at 22:01 By Zeljka Zorz On February 2024 Patch Tuesday, Microsoft has delivered fixes for 72 CVE-numbered vulnerabilities, including two zero-days (CVE-2024-21412, CVE-2024-21351) that are being leveraged by attackers in the wild. About CVE-2024-21412 and CVE-2024-21351 CVE-2024-21412 allows attackers to bypass the Microsoft Defender SmartScreen

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Russian hackers use old Outlook vulnerability to target Polish orgs (CVE-2023-23397)

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Russian hackers use old Outlook vulnerability to target Polish orgs (CVE-2023-23397) 05/12/2023 at 17:47 By Helga Labus Russian state-backed hacking group Forest Blizzard (aka Fancy Bear, aka APT28) has been using a known Microsoft Outlook vulnerability (CVE-2023-23397) to target public and private entities in Poland, Polish Cyber Command has warned. Compromising email accounts and maintaining

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Microsoft plugs exploited WordPad, Skype for Business zero-days (CVE-2023-36563, CVE-2023-41763)

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Microsoft plugs exploited WordPad, Skype for Business zero-days (CVE-2023-36563, CVE-2023-41763) 10/10/2023 at 22:01 By Zeljka Zorz On this October 2023 Patch Tuesday, Microsoft has released 103 patches and has fixed three actively exploited vulnerabilities (CVE-2023-36563, CVE-2023-41763, CVE-2023-44487). The exploited zero-days (CVE-2023-36563, CVE-2023-41763, CVE-2023-44487) CVE-2023-36563, discovered by Microsoft Threat Intelligence, is a WordPad vulnerability that could

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Microsoft, Adobe fix zero-days exploited by attackers (CVE-2023-26369, CVE-2023-36761, CVE-2023-36802)

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Microsoft, Adobe fix zero-days exploited by attackers (CVE-2023-26369, CVE-2023-36761, CVE-2023-36802) 12/09/2023 at 22:01 By Zeljka Zorz September 2023 Patch Tuesday is here, with fixes for actively exploited vulnerabilities in Adobe Acrobat and Reader (CVE-2023-26369), Microsoft Word (CVE-2023-36761), and Microsoft Streaming Service Proxy (CVE-2023-36802). Microsoft vulnerabilities of note Microsoft has delivered fixes for 61 CVE-numbered flaws:

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August 2023 Patch Tuesday: Microsoft fixes critical bugs in Teams, MSMQ

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August 2023 Patch Tuesday: Microsoft fixes critical bugs in Teams, MSMQ 08/08/2023 at 22:46 By Zeljka Zorz August 2023 Patch Tuesday is here; among the 76 CVE-numbered issues fixed by Microsoft this time around is a DoS vulnerability in .NET and Visual Studio (CVE-2023-38180) for which proof-of-exploit code exists. Other than the fact that a

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Product showcase: Stellar Toolkit for Exchange – Restore Exchange Database

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Product showcase: Stellar Toolkit for Exchange – Restore Exchange Database 26/07/2023 at 07:02 By Help Net Security Time is of the essence when it comes to recovery after Exchange Server failure or database corruption, as organizations depend on emails for their day-to-day business communication. The more the delay in restoring services and recovering data, the

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June 2023 Patch Tuesday: Critical patches for Microsoft Windows, SharePoint, Exchange

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June 2023 Patch Tuesday: Critical patches for Microsoft Windows, SharePoint, Exchange 13/06/2023 at 21:48 By Zeljka Zorz For June 2023 Patch Tuesday, Microsoft has delivered 70 new patches but, for once, none of the fixed vulnerabilities are currently exploited by attackers nor were publicly known before today! Microsoft has previously fixed CVE-2023-3079, a type confusion

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