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ESET Issues Security Patch for Privilege Escalation Flaw in Windows Products

Penetration Testing

The flaw, designated CVE-2024-2003 (CVSS 7.3) ESET, a leading cybersecurity provider, has addressed a high-severity vulnerability in its range of Windows security products.

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Signed Malware

Schneier on Security

What's more, it predated Stuxnet, with the first known instance occurring in 2003. The forgeries also allow malware to evade antivirus protections. Now, researchers have presented proof that digitally signed malware is much more common than previously believed.

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Wireless Security: WEP, WPA, WPA2 and WPA3 Explained

eSecurity Planet

You need to have a reasonable level of trust in the devices connecting to any network, so any policies you can set to require things like antivirus , updated operating systems and VPNs will protect both the network and its users. Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) is an improvement of WEP introduced in 2003.

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Supply-Chain Security and Trust

Schneier on Security

And while nation-state threats like China and Huawei ­-- or Russia and the antivirus company Kaspersky a couple of years earlier ­-- make the news, many of the vulnerabilities I described above are being exploited by cybercriminals. The overall problem is that of supply-chain security, because every part of the supply chain can be attacked.

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[SI-LAB] FlawedAmmyy Leveraging Undetected XLM Macros as an Infection Vehicle

Security Affairs

This technology is stored in the Workbook OLE stream in Excel 97-2003 format which makes it very difficult to detect and parse by antivirus (AV) engines. doc and.xlm) to evade antivirus detection and bypass spam filters as well. Figure 5: Microsoft Excel 97-2003 version identified. macro technology.

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New Security Vulnerabilities: How Should You Respond?

NopSec

The vulnerability was such that the threat actors could bypass typical defenses such as antivirus (AV) and endpoint detection and response (EDR). In fact, patching of vulnerabilities has been so commonplace for so long that Microsoft started something it called “ Patch Tuesday ” in 2003.

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Spotlight Podcast: At 15 Cybersecurity Awareness Month Grows with Cyber Risk

The Security Ledger

And what does Cyber Security Awareness Month mean in 2018 as opposed to 2003? ” Compared with today, those were sleepy times – when you might update your desktop antivirus weekly or even monthly -like changing the batteries in your TV remote, but not be overly concerned about debilitating cyber attacks or scams, Schrader noted.