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It's 2022. Why do you keep using SMB?

Ivanti

During the last 25 years, companies have relied on SMB protocol to allow them to collaborate and centralize corporate documents. The history of SMB (and why it's no longer relevant). The latest iteration, SMB 3.1.1, encryption added in SMB3 and implemented a pre-authentication integrity check using?SHA-512?hash.

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Maximize Your Vulnerability Scan Value with Authenticated Scanning

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Start doing authenticated scanning. Performing authenticated scans of your environment offers essential benefits and is a practice widely recognized as valuable. The scan configurations we observe in Tenable’s SaaS products are telling: our customers run unauthenticated scans 20 times more than authenticated ones.

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Microsoft’s September 2024 Patch Tuesday Addresses 79 CVEs (CVE-2024-43491)

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Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services Administrative Tools Internet Explorer 11 Internet Information ServicesWorld Wide Web Services LPD Print Service Microsoft Message Queue (MSMQ) Server Core MSMQ HTTP Support MultiPoint Connector SMB 1.0/CIFS Advanced Services ASP.NET 4.6 With a CVSSv3 score of 5.4,

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Microsoft’s June 2020 Patch Tuesday Addresses 129 CVEs Including Newly Disclosed SMBv3 Vulnerability (CVE-2020-1206)

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The updates this month include patches for Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Edge, ChakraCore, Internet Explorer, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Office Services and Web Apps, Windows Defender, Microsoft Dynamics, Visual Studio, Azure DevOps and Adobe Flash Player. This flaw can be exploited on an authenticated server or against an SMB client.

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CVE-2022-37958: FAQ for Critical Microsoft SPNEGO NEGOEX Vulnerability

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CVE-2022-37958 is a remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in the SPNEGO NEGOEX protocol of Windows operating systems, which supports authentication in applications. What is SPNEGO NEGOEX? More details about SPNEGO NEGOEX can be found here. What protocols use SPNEGO NEGOEX?

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CISA and NSA Cloud Security Best Practices: Deep Dive

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The best practices align with recommendations that other organizations touch on, such as the Center for Internet Security (CIS) cloud foundations benchmarks. There are definitely tie-ins to the IAM controls with regards to how services accounts authenticate and what those accounts can do when they gain access.

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Cybersecurity Snapshot: Log4j Anniversary, CI/CD Risks, Infostealers, Email Attacks, OT Security

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As cybercriminals successfully swipe credentials using infostealer malware, they will often launch “MFA-fatigue” attacks to breach compromised accounts that are protected with multifactor authentication. . Multi-Factor Authentication Request Generation ” (MITRE). 4 - Cybersecurity looms large in SMB software purchases.