NSA Announces Sandworm Actors Exploiting Exim MTA Vulnerability (CVE-2019-10149)

The Exim MTA vulnerability, initially reported by Qualys in May 2019, is currently being exploited in the wild. Recently, the US National Security Agency (NSA) announced that Sandworm actors (Russian hacker group) have been actively exploiting the Exim… Continue reading NSA Announces Sandworm Actors Exploiting Exim MTA Vulnerability (CVE-2019-10149)

May 2020 Patch Tuesday – 111 Vulns, 16 Critical, SharePoint, VS Code, Adobe Patches

Continuing the trend of large Microsoft Patch Tuesdays, this month’s addresses 111 vulnerabilities with 16 of them labeled as Critical. The 16 Critical vulnerabilities cover SharePoint, Browsers, Scripting Engines, Media Foundation, Microsoft Gra… Continue reading May 2020 Patch Tuesday – 111 Vulns, 16 Critical, SharePoint, VS Code, Adobe Patches

April 2020 Patch Tuesday – 113 Vulns, 19 Critical, Zero-Day Patches, SharePoint, Adobe ColdFusion

This month’s Microsoft Patch Tuesday addresses 113 vulnerabilities with 19 of them labeled as Critical. The 19 Critical vulnerabilities cover Adobe Font Manager Library (0-day), SharePoint, Hyper-V, Scripting Engines, Media Foundation, Microsoft … Continue reading April 2020 Patch Tuesday – 113 Vulns, 19 Critical, Zero-Day Patches, SharePoint, Adobe ColdFusion

Secure Remote Endpoints from Vulnerabilities in Video Conferencing & Productivity Applications like Zoom

With millions working, learning and collaborating remotely due to COVID-19 challenges, there’s an explosion of remote endpoints running Zoom and other collaboration and productivity applications such as Outlook, Teams, Webex, Slack, Office 365 an… Continue reading Secure Remote Endpoints from Vulnerabilities in Video Conferencing & Productivity Applications like Zoom

Automatically Discover, Prioritize and Remediate Windows Adobe Type Manager Library Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (ADV200006) using Qualys VMDR

On March 23, Microsoft released zero day advisory ADV200006 to address two critical remote code execution vulnerabilities in Adobe Type Manager Library that affects multiple versions of Windows and Windows Server. The vulnerabilities exist within the w… Continue reading Automatically Discover, Prioritize and Remediate Windows Adobe Type Manager Library Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (ADV200006) using Qualys VMDR

Microsoft Released Out-of-Band Advisory – Windows Adobe Type Manager Library Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (ADV200006)

Today, Microsoft released an out-of-band security advisory ADV200006 to address two critical remote code execution vulnerabilities in Adobe Type Manager Library. Microsoft is also aware of limited, targeted attacks that attempt to leverage this vulnera… Continue reading Microsoft Released Out-of-Band Advisory – Windows Adobe Type Manager Library Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (ADV200006)

Automatically Discover, Prioritize and Remediate Microsoft SMBv3 RCE Vulnerability (CVE-2020-0796) using Qualys VMDR

This month’s Patch Tuesday, Microsoft disclosed a a critical “wormable” remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in Microsoft Server Message Block 3.1.1 (SMBv3) protocol. The exploitation of this vulnerability opens systems up t… Continue reading Automatically Discover, Prioritize and Remediate Microsoft SMBv3 RCE Vulnerability (CVE-2020-0796) using Qualys VMDR

Microsoft Windows SMBv3 Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (CVE-2020-0796)

This Patch Tuesday, Microsoft disclosed a remote code execution vulnerability in SMB 3.1.1 (v3) protocol. Even though initial release of the Patch Tuesday did not mention this vulnerability, details of the issue (CVE-2020-0796) were published accidenta… Continue reading Microsoft Windows SMBv3 Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (CVE-2020-0796)

March 2020 Patch Tuesday – 115 Vulns, 26 Critical, Microsoft Word and Workstation Patches

This month’s Microsoft Patch Tuesday addresses 115 vulnerabilities with 26 of them labeled as Critical. Of the 26 Critical vulns, 17 are for browser and scripting engines, 4 are for Media Foundation, 2 are for GDI+ and the remaining 3 are for LNK… Continue reading March 2020 Patch Tuesday – 115 Vulns, 26 Critical, Microsoft Word and Workstation Patches

Identifying Let’s Encrypt Revoked Certificates

Let’s Encrypt is a free, automated, open certificate authority (CA) run for the public’s benefit as a service from the Internet Security Research Group (ISRG). It provides free digital certificates to enable HTTPS (… Continue reading Identifying Let’s Encrypt Revoked Certificates