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2024-08-28 Post a Comment

Windows Downdate tool lets you ‘unpatch’ Windows systems

By Sergiu Gatlan SafeBreach security researcher Alon Leviev has released hisÂ Windows DowndateÂ tool, which can be used for downgrade attacks that reintroduce old vulnerabilities in up-to-date Windows 10, Windows 11, and Windows Server systems. In such attacks, threat actors force up-to-date targeted devices to revert to older software versions, thus reintroducing security vulnerabilities that can be exploited to compromise the system. Windows Downdate is available as an open-source Python-based program and […]

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2024-06-11 Post a Comment

Cybersecurity at a crossroads: Time to shift to an architectural approach

The need for greater scale, intelligence, and automation is driving massive change in security operations and the SIEM market. byÂ Jon Oltsik Contributing Writer According to ESG research, 45% of cybersecurity professionals believe that security operations are more difficult today than they were two years ago, while another 11% claim that things are about the same. When asked why they felt this way, security pros pointed to a growing attack surface, […]

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2024-04-06 Post a Comment

Microsoftâ€™s Security Chickens Have Come Home to Roost

By Ryan Naraine: News analysis:Â SecurityWeek editor-at-large Ryan Naraine reads the CSRB report on Chinaâ€™s audacious Microsoftâ€™s Exchange Online hack and isnâ€™t at all surprised by the findings. The US governmentâ€™s public documentation of Microsoftâ€™s shoddy cybersecurity practices, lax corporate culture and untruthfulness in public communications should come as no surprise to anyone.Â There were dark patterns everywhere. For years, we collectivelyÂ groaned and rolled our eyesÂ as Microsoft shippedÂ faultyÂ andÂ incomplete patches, gutted […]

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Cyber security

2024-04-06 Post a Comment

New Wave of JSOutProx Malware Targeting Financial Firms in APAC and MENA

New Wave of JSOutProx Malware Targeting Financial Firms in APAC and MENAÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â […]

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2024-03-30 Post a Comment

Cloud Email Filtering Bypass Attack Works 80% of the Time

A majority of enterprises that employ cloud-based email spam filtering services are potentially at risk, thanks to a rampant tendency to misconfigure them. David Strom,Â Contributing Writer Computer scientists have uncovered a shockingly prevalent misconfiguration in popular enterprise cloud-based email spam filtering services, along with an exploit for taking advantage of it. The findings reveal that organizations are far more open to email-borne cyber threats than they know. In a paper […]