Community detection: CVE-2020-16898

By Ben Reardon, Corelight Security Researcher This month’s Microsoft Patch Tuesday included a severe Remote Code Execution vulnerability in the way that Windows TCP/IP handles IPv6 “Router Advertisement” ICMP messages. Due to the severity and wide scop… Continue reading Community detection: CVE-2020-16898

October Patch Tuesday: Microsoft Patches Critical, Wormable RCE Bug

There were 11 critical bugs and six that were unpatched but publicly known in this month’s regularly scheduled Microsoft updates. Continue reading October Patch Tuesday: Microsoft Patches Critical, Wormable RCE Bug

Microsoft Patch Tuesday, October 2020 Edition

It’s Cybersecurity Awareness Month! In keeping with that theme, if you (ab)use Microsoft Windows computers you should be aware the company shipped a bevy of software updates today to fix at least 87 security problems in Windows and programs that run on top of the operating system. That means it’s once again time to backup and patch up. Continue reading Microsoft Patch Tuesday, October 2020 Edition