Tag Incident Response

April 8, 2023

Hello all,The Red-N Weekly Cyber Security News newsletter is below the Notable Callouts as usual. Notable Callouts: The dire predictions of AI taking over the world are highly overrated. Since the introduction of the IBM PC in 1981 it has…

February 24, 2023

Hello all,The Red-N Weekly Security newsletter is below the Notable Callouts as usual. Notable Callouts: Having incomplete security coverage, meaning devices that don’t have your tools and monitoring on them, is worse than not having any coverage. In the latter…

February 11, 2023

Hello all,The Red-N Weekly Security newsletter is below the Notable Callouts as usual. Notable Callouts: Keeping your file and system backups in the same Windows Active Directory Domain as your servers and workstations is like putting a freshly grilled steak…

February 4, 2023

Hello all,The Red-N Weekly Security newsletter is below the Notable Callouts as usual. Notable Callouts: An interesting report from cybernews has named Cybercrime the world’s third largest economy, behind the USA and China – absolutely mind-boggling! “Based on data from…

November 26, 2022

Hello all,A few of the notable call-out’s from this week’s report (found below this introduction) are: Having up to date, monitored and effective internet security is sort of like owning a snow-blower in Buffalo NY. It doesn’t do much for…

October 29, 2022

ConnectWise patched a critical RCE vulnerability in Recover and R1Soft Server Backup Manager Google fixes seventh Chrome zero-day exploited in attacks this year Atlassian Jira Align, Version 10.107.4 Vulnerability Advisory Apple fixes new zero-day used in attacks against iPhones, iPads,…

October 15, 2022

Microsoft October 2022 Patch Tuesday fixes two zero-days, 1 used in attacks, 84 flaws, 13 of which are critical The October 2022 Exchange SUs do not contain fixes for the zero-day vulnerabilities reported on September 29, 2022 Windows 11 KB5018427…

September 16, 2022

Microsoft September 2022 Patch Tuesday fixes zero-day used in attacks, 63 flaws Windows 10 Update KB5017308 causes issues when creating/copying files via GPO Microsoft issues critical security updates as PCs attacked through zero-day flaw Microsoft issues patch for serious security…

September 9, 2022

QNAP patches zero-day used in new Deadbolt ransomware attacks Interpol and local Police dismantled an Asian Sextortion ring Zyxel has released patches for NAS products affected by a format string vulnerability HP fixes severe Privilege Escalation bug in pre-installed HP…

September 2, 2022

64% of Businesses Suspect They’ve Been Targeted or Impacted by Nation-State Attacks US House appropriators want to fund more than $15 billion for cybersecurity Microsoft adds virtual core licensing to Windows Server – major cloud hosts excluded New licensing benefits…

August 26, 2022

Microsoft shares workarounds for broken audio on Windows 10 after KB5015878 Cookie theft threat: When multi-factor authentication (MFA) is not enough CISA is warning of high-severity PAN-OS DDoS flaw used in attacks LastPass source code, blueprints stolen by intruder –…

August 19, 2022

Microsoft’s Secure Boot fix sends some PCs into BitLocker Recovery New macOS 12.5.1 and iOS 15.6.1 updates patch “actively exploited” vulnerabilities Microsoft will turn off TLS 1.0 and 1.1 in Internet Explorer and EdgeHTML on September 13 Exploit out for…