Windows

Malware & Threats, Network Security, Software Security

Issued by: Dark Reading

Just as the COVID-19 pandemic changed the way we live and work, malware operators changed the way they attack enterprise targets. Last year businesses saw Windows malware detections drop and Mac detections rise as criminals tossed old tactics and focused on targeted attacks. In the “2020 State of Malware” report, Malwarebytes researchers explore how attack…

Network Security, Software Security

Issued by: CSO

Microsoft recently changed how it presents and explains its security vulnerabilities in its products. The new security guide aligns itself with security and industry standards by describing the vulnerabilities with the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS), which presents a vulnerability’s key characteristics and assigns a numerical score to its severity. The intent of that score…

Vulnerabilities

Issued by: CSO

Despite a recent decline in attacks, ransomware still poses significant threats to enterprises, as the attacks against healthcare organizations demonstrated this month. It is also becoming more capable. In particular, ransomware writers are aware that backups are an effective defense and are modifying their malware to track down and eliminate the backups. Ransomware targeting backups…

Network Security

Issued by: CSO

In October 2020, Microsoft patched a set of vulnerabilities that included critical networking bugs CVE-2020-16898 and CVE-2020-16899. Known as “Bad Neighbor” or “Ping of Death Redux,” these flaws lurk in the TCP/IP networking implementation in Windows in how incoming ICMPv6 packets are handled under certain conditions. Both CVE-2020-16898 and CVE-2020-16899 represent the Bad Neighbor vulnerability,…

Software Security

Issued by: CSO

After a compromise, the first thing investigators will do is review the log files. The default logging on Windows machines, however, does not capture enough information to identify forensic artifacts. You can adjust your logging settings to get enough information to investigate attacks. First, download and install Sysmon on outward-facing machines. Sysmon remains resident across…

Vulnerabilities

Issued by: CSO

At the recent Black Hat conference, Peleg Hadar and Tumar Bar of SafeBreach Labs pointed out that the way to a network’s heart is often through its printers. In 2010, one of the vulnerabilities Stuxnet used was a remote code execution on a computer with printer sharing enabled. To reach Iran’s centrifuges, Stuxnet exploited a…