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The PrintNightmare Saga Continues to Frustrate System Administrators

July 14, 2021 By Josh Stuifbergen

Nightmare

  Update 1: Third PrintNightmare CVE published (July 16th, 2021): Microsoft published CVE-2021-34481 on July 15th for a local privilege escalation vulnerability. The third Print Spooler service vulnerability is considered separate from PrintNightmare (CVE-2021-34527), but it is still within a similar sphere of printer driver vulnerabilities. Gentilkiwi, the author of … [Read more...]

Exchange Server Vulnerabilities Actively Exploited in the Wild

March 8, 2021 By Ryan Estes

Email

(Updated 03/10/2021 to include defensive tips) As the cybersecurity community continues to reel with the sweeping effects of the SolarWinds attack, the Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) has released information about another widespread campaign targeting Exchange servers. It has been found that a state-sponsored threat actor operating out of China, which they are … [Read more...]

SolarWinds Catch-Up

February 1, 2021 By Josh Stuifbergen

Swift new developments have continued to pour out on the SolarWinds breach. Under normal circumstances it is difficult to keep up to date on the news and especially so with a story that continues to grow. Nevertheless, the Threat Lab team at WatchGuard has been keeping an eye out on the latest updates. Beyond the major players such as FireEye, Microsoft, CISA, and SolarWinds, … [Read more...]

Critical Microsoft DNS Server Vulnerability – SIGRRed

July 14, 2020 By Marc Laliberte

Broken lock

If you already had plans to test and roll out the various Microsoft Windows and Server updates that came out today as a part of Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday, you probably want to move a bit quicker. Among the various bug fixes are a series of patches for a critical “wormable” vulnerability in Windows DNS Server, affecting all Windows Server versions dating back to Server 2003 … [Read more...]

Flash 0day and MS Patch Day – Daily Security Byte EP. 273

June 15, 2016 By Corey Nachreiner

The second Tuesday of each month is infamously known as Microsoft Patch Day by IT pros. However, this month Adobe's security news trumps Microsoft's. Watch today's video to learn why you should update Flash before your Microsoft products, but also why you shouldn't skimp on the Microsoft patches either. (Episode Runtime: 2:59 Direct YouTube … [Read more...]

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