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Realistic Patch Management Tips, Post-SolarWinds Patch management and testing are different, exactly the same, and completely out of hand. Here are tips from the experts on how to wrangle patches in a time of malicious software updates. (image by Barbara Helgason, via Adobe Stock) "If you didnt already know that patching introduces risk, well...now you know," says Brad Causey, CEO of security consulting and penetration testing firm Zero Day Consulting. Causey is referring of course to the rece...

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Get Permission Hackers have targeted units of local government in the U.S. by attempting to exploit unpatched vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange email servers, according to a new report by the security firm FireEye. While Microsoft has said that a Chinese-linked hacking group that has been exploiting the vulnerabilities in Exchange is known to target infectious disease researchers, law firms, higher education institutions, defense contractors, policy think tanks and nongovernment organizati...

Realistic Patch Management Tips, Post-SolarWinds Patch management and testing are different, exactly the same, and completely out of hand. Here are tips from the experts on how to wrangle patches in a time of malicious software updates. (image by Barbara Helgason, via Adobe Stock) "If you didnt already know that patching introduces risk, well...now you know," says Brad Causey, CEO of security consulting and penetration testing firm Zero Day Consulting. Causey is referring of course to the rece...

Get Permission UPDATED: Just days after Microsoft disclosed four zero-day flaws in Microsoft Exchange email servers, attackers are going on a wide hunt for vulnerable machines, some security experts say. Steven Adair, CEO and founder of the firm Volexity, which first reported the vulnerabilities, says that over the past few days, the Chinese hacking group accused of initially exploiting the flaws has shifted into high gear, stepping up attacks on any vulnerable, unpatched Exchange servers wor...

By Ionut Arghire on March 04, 2021 Hours after the Clop ransomware gang published data allegedly stolen from information security and compliance solutions provider Qualys, the company has confirmed being impacted by the recent cyberattack involving Accellion’s FTA product. Founded in 1999, the California-based firm serves more than 10,000 customers in over 130 countries around the world, including many of the Forbes Global 100 companies. Data allegedly stolen from the company, including scan...

Get Permission Microsoft issued emergency software patches on Tuesday for four zero-day vulnerabilities in its Exchange email server, one of the most widely used pieces of enterprise infrastructure. The company says it believes the flaws have been exploited by a China-based group it calls Hafnium, which is seeking to gain persistent access to email systems. Microsoft typically issues patches for Windows and other products on the second Tuesday of every month, but it makes exceptions for secur...

In the latest in a string of security-related headaches for Microsoft, the company warned customers Tuesday that state sponsored hackers from China have been exploiting flaws in one of its widely used email products, Exchange, in order to target American companies for data theft.

By Ryan Naraine on March 02, 2021 Microsoft late Tuesday raised the alarm after discovering Chinese cyber-espionage operators chaining multiple zero-day exploits to siphon e-mail data from corporate Microsoft Exchange servers. Redmonds warning includes the release of emergency out-of-band patches for four distinct zero-day vulnerabilities that formed part of the threat actors arsenal. Microsoft pinned the blame on a sophisticated Chinese APT operator called HAFNIUM that operates from leased VP...

Get Permission A Chinese hacking group reportedly "cloned" and deployed a zero-day exploit developed by the U.S. National Security Agencys Equation Group before Microsoft patched the Windows vulnerability that was being exploited in 2017, according to an analysis published Monday by Check Point Research. For several years, researchers had suspected the Chinese hacking group known as APT31 or Zirconium had developed an exploit tool to take advantage of a vulnerability tracked as CVE-2017-0005 a...