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CVE-2024-8260: SMB Force-Authentication Vulnerability in OPA Could Lead to Credential Leakage

Tenable

Tenable Research discovered an SMB force-authentication vulnerability in Open Policy Agent (OPA) that is now fixed in the latest release of OPA. This exploration led us to discover an SMB force-authentication vulnerability (CVSSv3 6.1) affecting all existing versions of OPA for Windows at that time.

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Jeff Bezos’ investment fund is backing a startup hoping to be the AWS for SMB accounting

TechCrunch

Bezos Expeditions — Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’ personal investment fund — and Whale Rock Capital (a $10 billion hedge fund) co-led the round, which also included participation from Sequoia Capital, Index Ventures, Authentic Ventures and others. . Ironically, Pilot says it aspires to the “AWS of SMB backoffice.” (In

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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

Tenable

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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Leverage Two-Factor Authentication for Maximized Security

Kaseya

Phishing, social engineering and unsecured networks have made password based authentication insecure for some time. In today’s age where security breaches have become an everyday occurrence, password-only authentication is not sufficient. Increase Security with Two-Factor Authentication.

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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 This vulnerability was assigned a CVSSv3 score of 7.3

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Microsoft’s November 2024 Patch Tuesday Addresses 87 CVEs (CVE-2024-43451, CVE-2024-49039)

Tenable

Successful exploitation would lead to the unauthorized disclosure of a user’s NTLMv2 hash, which an attacker could then use to authenticate to the system as the user. of the vulnerabilities patched this month, followed by elevation of privilege (EoP) vulnerabilities at 29.9%. It was assigned a CVSSv3 score of 9.8

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