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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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CVE-2020-1194 is a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability due to the Windows Registry improperly handling filesystem operations. An attacker would need access to the system in order to launch a crafted application to exploit this flaw. This flaw can be exploited on an authenticated server or against an SMB client.

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Leverage Two-Factor Authentication for Maximized Security

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Did you know that 81 percent of data breaches are due to weak or stolen passwords? Phishing, social engineering and unsecured networks have made password based authentication insecure for some time. They may be stuck with their legacy processes and systems. Increase Security with Two-Factor Authentication.

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

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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. An attacker with local access to a vulnerable system could exploit this vulnerability by running a specially crafted application. and is rated as important.

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CISA and NSA Cloud Security Best Practices: Deep Dive

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The content in the CSIs underscores the importance of concepts such as least privilege, limiting attack surface area and centralizing logs for auditing purposes, as well as the use of tools like key management services (KMS), multi-factor authentication (MFA), and modern encryption protocols.

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Microsoft’s April 2022 Patch Tuesday Addresses 117 CVEs (CVE-2022-24521)

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Windows Common Log File System Driver. Windows Network File System. Windows SMB. CVE-2022-24521 and CVE-2022-24481 | Windows Common Log File System Driver Elevation of Privilege Vulnerabilities. CVE-2022-24521 is an EoP vulnerability in the Windows Common Log File System (CLFS) driver for Microsoft Windows.

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Examining the Treat Landscape

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According to a joint alert from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency (CISA), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and the National Security Agency (NSA), threat actors have been exploiting RDP to breach water and wastewater systems in the United States. Specialty candy: Active Directory.

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