article thumbnail

What you need to know about Okta’s security breach

CIO

Unfortunately, every time a breach like this is reported, the security community is bombarded with pseudo-silver bullets claiming how the compromise could have been averted if only a particular solution had been deployed. In this recent OKTA breach, no reports suggest major incidents so far. Plants decoy credentials in Windows memory.

article thumbnail

Microsoft’s June 2024 Patch Tuesday Addresses 49 CVEs

Tenable

Critical CVE-2024-30080 | Microsoft Message Queuing (MSMQ) Remote Code Execution Vulnerability CVE-2024-30080 is a RCE vulnerability in the Microsoft Message Queuing (MSMQ) component of Windows operating systems that was assigned a CVSSv3 score of 9.8 and rated critical. All three of these vulnerabilities were assigned a CVSSv3 score of 7.8

Windows 60
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Microsoft’s January 2024 Patch Tuesday Addresses 48 CVEs (CVE-2024-20674)

Tenable

Critical CVE-2024-20674 | Windows Kerberos Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability CVE-2024-20674 is a critical security feature bypass vulnerability affecting Windows Kerberos, an authentication protocol designed to verify user or host identities. The attacker would then be able to bypass authentication via impersonation.

Windows 115
article thumbnail

Microsoft’s March 2024 Patch Tuesday Addresses 59 CVEs (CVE-2024-21407)

Tenable

Critical CVE-2024-21407 | Windows Hyper-V Remote Code Execution Vulnerability CVE-2024-21407 is a RCE vulnerability in Windows Hyper-V. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability requires that an attacker be authenticated and gather information about the target environment in order to craft their exploit.

Windows 124
article thumbnail

CVE-2021-34527: Microsoft Releases Out-of-Band Patch for PrintNightmare Vulnerability in Windows Print Spooler

Tenable

Microsoft issues an out-of-band patch for critical ‘PrintNightmare’ vulnerability following reports of in-the-wild exploitation and publication of multiple proof-of-concept exploit scripts. This remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability affects all versions of Microsoft Windows. Background. Description. CVE-2021-34527. 5004953.

Windows 101
article thumbnail

TechCrunch+ roundup: Generative AI for proptech, cloud vendor shopping, cybersecurity fairy tales

TechCrunch

Investors have taken notice: CB Insights reports that VCs poured $49 billion into AI last year, a 40% jump from the year before. Image Credits: in future (opens in a new window) / Getty Images Early stage investors usually understand verticals better than the aspiring entrepreneurs who pitch them. Attackers only need to be right once.”

article thumbnail

February 2024 Patch Tuesday

Ivanti

Microsoft updates this month impact the Windows OS, Office 365, Edge, Windows Defender, Sharepoint, SQL Server, Exchange Server,Net (reissued), multiple Azure components and a few odds and ends. Starting with the reissue: Microsoft reissued a spoofing vulnerability in Windows AppX Installer ( CVE-2021-43890 ). base score of 7.5