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Microsoft Patches ‘Wormable’ Flaw in Windows XP, 7 and Windows 2003

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Microsoft today is taking the unusual step of releasing security updates for unsupported but still widely-used Windows operating systems like XP and Windows 2003 , citing the discovery of a “wormable” flaw that the company says could be used to fuel a fast-moving malware threat like the WannaCry ransomware attacks of 2017.

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Meet Ika & Sal: The Bulletproof Hosting Duo from Hell

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As detailed in my 2014 book, Spam Nation , Spamdot was home to crooks controlling some of the world’s nastiest botnets, global malware contagions that went by exotic names like Rustock , Cutwail , Mega-D , Festi , Waledac , and Grum. Icamis promoted his services in 2003 — such as bulk-domains[.]info w s, icamis[.]ru

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Don’t Let Your Domain Name Become a “Sitting Duck”

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More than a million domain names — including many registered by Fortune 100 firms and brand protection companies — are vulnerable to takeover by cybercriminals thanks to authentication weaknesses at a number of large web hosting providers and domain registrars, new research finds. Image: Shutterstock.

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DHS also issued an alert for the Windows BlueKeep flaw

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The agency urges Microsoft users and administrators to install security patches, disable unnecessary services, enable Network Level Authentication (NLA) if available, and block TCP port 3389. Enable Network Level Authentication. Enable Network Level Authentication in Windows 7, Windows Server 2008, and Windows Server 2008 R2.

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Expert developed a MetaSploit module for the BlueKeep flaw

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BlueKeep is a wormable flaw that can be exploited by malware authors to create malicious code with WannaCry capabilities. Microsoft has released patches for Windows 7, Server 2008, XP and Server 2003. This Metasploit module doesn’t work against Windows Server 2003. According to Z??osum0x0,

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NSA urges Windows Users and admins to Patch BlueKeep flaw

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BlueKeep is a wormable flaw that can be exploited by malware authors to create malicious code with WannaCry capabilities. Microsoft has released patches for Windows 7, Server 2008, XP and Server 2003. Enable Network Level Authentication. This port is used in RDP protocol and will block attempts to establish a connection.

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Microsoft Patch Tuesday addresses dangerous RDS flaw that opens to WannaCry-like attacks

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The vulnerability tracked as CVE-2019-0863 could be exploited by an attacker with low-privileged access to the targeted system to deliver a malware. “This vulnerability is pre-authentication and requires no user interaction. As explained by Microsoft, this vulnerability could be exploited by malware with wormable capabilities.

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