Tag: printnightmare
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This Week in Security: Zimbra, Lockbit 2, And Hacking NK
Unknown attackers have been exploiting a 0-day attack against the Zimbra e-mail suite. Researchers at Volexity first discovered the attack back in December of last year, detected by their monitoring infrastructure. It’s a cross-site scripting (XSS) exploit, such that when opening a malicious link, the JavaScript running on the malicious page can access a logged-in…
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Microsoft offers workaround, but no fix, for yet another Windows print spooler security vulnerability
Just as there has been a spate of hugely problematic updates for Windows 10 over the last year, in recent weeks there has been a seemingly endless stream of security flaws relating to the Windows print spooler. Now Microsoft has acknowledged another zero-day vulnerability. There is currently no fix available for the security bug, a…
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Four in-the-wild exploits, 13 critical patches headline bumper Patch Tuesday
The list of July 2021 Patch Tuesday updates looks endless. 117 patches with no less than 42 CVEs assigned to them that have FAQs, mitigations details or workarounds listed for them. Looking at the urgency levels Microsoft has assigned to them, system administrators have their work cut out for them once again: 13 criticial patches103…