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CIA Hacking unit APT-C-39 hit China since 2008

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” The US-linked hackers targeted the Chinese organizations between September 2008 and June 2019. Schulte worked for the NSA for five months in 2010 as a systems engineer, after this experience, he joined the CIA as a software engineer and he left the CIA in November 2016. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Microsoft Issues Emergency Fix for IE Zero Day

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Satnam Narang , senior research engineer at Tenable , said the vulnerability affects the following installations of IE: Internet Explorer 11 from Windows 7 to Windows 10 as well as Windows Server 2012, 2016 and 2019; IE 9 on Windows Server 2008; and IE 10 on Windows Server 2012.

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Microsoft: Attackers Exploiting ‘ZeroLogon’ Windows Flaw

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The flaw is present in most supported versions of Windows Server, from Server 2008 through Server 2019. CVE-2020-1472 earned Microsoft’s most-dire “critical” severity rating, meaning attackers can exploit it with little or no help from users. “Administrators should prioritize patching this flaw as soon as possible.

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Microsoft Patch Tuesday, July 2021 Edition

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CVE-2021-34448 is a critical remote code execution vulnerability in the scripting engine built into every supported version of Windows — including server versions. “Both core and full installations are affected back to Windows Server 2008, including versions 2004 and 20H2,” said Aleks Haugom , also with Automox.

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Microsoft Patch Tuesday, March 2021 Edition

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. “As we’ve seen in the past, once PoC details become publicly available, attackers quickly incorporate those PoCs into their attack toolkits,” said Satnam Narang , staff research engineer at Tenable. “There is the outside chance this could be wormable between DNS servers,” warned Trend Micro’s Dustin Childs.

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How Internet Savvy are Your Leaders?

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Back in April 2015, I tweeted about receiving a letter via snail mail suggesting the search engine rankings for a domain registered in my name would suffer if I didn’t pay a bill for some kind of dubious-looking service I’d never heard of. Image: Better Business Bureau.

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Microsoft Patch Tuesday, November 2023 Edition

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.” The final zero day in this month’s Patch Tuesday is a problem in the “Windows Cloud Files Mini Filter Driver” tracked as CVE-2023-36036 that affects Windows 10 and later, as well as Windows Server 2008 at later.