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No, I Did Not Hack Your MS Exchange Server
New data suggests someone has compromised more than 21,000 Microsoft Exchange Server email systems worldwide and infected them with malware that invokes both KrebsOnSecurity and Yours Truly by name. Let's just get ...
Microsoft Patch Tuesday, January 2021 Edition
Microsoft today released updates to plug more than 80 security holes in its Windows operating systems and other software, including one that is actively being exploited and another which was disclosed prior ...
Extracting Security Products from SUNBURST DNS Beacons
The latest version of our SunburstDomainDecoder (v1.7) can be used to reveal which endpoint protection applications that are installed on trojanized SolarWinds Orion deployments. The security application info is extracted from DNS ...
Fake Windows Defender Antivirus Theme Used to Spread QBot
Digital attackers incorporated a fake Windows Defender Antivirus theme into a malicious document in order to distribute QBot malware. According to Bleeping Computer, the QBot gang began using a new template for ...
Win10: 3 Perspectives on Endpoint Security Strategies
Many businesses rely on corporate-owned Windows 10 devices for securing corporate endpoints. In an attempt to keep cyberattackers at bay, they may try to lock down Windows 10 with a variety of ...
Microsoft and Apple Security Updates, Signal’s Sealed Sender, Girl Scouts Data Breach – WB41
This is your Shared Security Weekly Blaze for November 5th 2018 with your host, Tom Eston. In this week’s episode: Microsoft and Apple security Updates, Signal’s sealed sender and the Girl Scouts ...
Intel Won’t Patch Spectre on All CPUs
Intel does not plan to release microcode updates for older generations of processors that are affected by the Spectre vulnerability, either because patching is not practical and for other reasons. The company ...