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May 2024 Patch Tuesday: Microsoft fixes exploited zero-days (CVE-2024-30051, CVE-2024-30040)
2024-05-14 18:48

For May 2024 Patch Tuesday, Microsoft has released fixes for 59 CVE-numbered vulnerabilities, including two zero-days actively exploited by attackers. CVE-2024-30051 is a heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability affecting the Windows DWM Core Library that can be exploited to elevate attackers' privileges on a target system.

Microsoft May 2024 Patch Tuesday fixes 3 zero-days, 61 flaws
2024-05-14 17:49

Today is Microsoft's May 2024 Patch Tuesday, which includes security updates for 61 flaws and three actively exploited or publicly disclosed zero days. The total count of 61 flaws does not include 2 Microsoft Edge flaws fixed on May 2nd and four fixed on May 10th. To learn more about the non-security updates released today, you can review our dedicated articles on the new Windows 11 KB5037771 cumulative update and the Windows 10 KB5037768 update.

Week in review: Veeam fixes RCE flaw in backup management platform, Patch Tuesday forecast
2024-05-12 08:00

Veeam fixes RCE flaw in backup management platformVeeam has patched a high-severity vulnerability in Veeam Service Provider Console and is urging customers to implement the patch. May 2024 Patch Tuesday forecast: A reminder of recent threats and impactThe thunderstorms of April patches have passed, and it has been pretty calm leading up to May 2024 Patch Tuesday.

May 2024 Patch Tuesday forecast: A reminder of recent threats and impact
2024-05-10 05:45

The thunderstorms of April patches have passed, and it has been pretty calm leading up to May 2024 Patch Tuesday. April 2024 Patch Tuesday turned out to be a busy one with 150 new CVEs addressed by Microsoft.

Microsoft April 2024 Patch Tuesday fixes 150 security flaws, 67 RCEs
2024-04-09 17:34

Today is Microsoft's April 2024 Patch Tuesday, which includes security updates for 150 flaws and sixty-seven remote code execution bugs. More than half of the RCE flaws are found within Microsoft SQL drivers, likely sharing a common flaw.

April 2024 Patch Tuesday forecast: New and old from Microsoft
2024-04-08 05:20

Regular patch releases will be critical to keep this product updated because it does not receive immediate security updates like its related, cloud-connected versions. Hard to believe, Windows 11 21H2 for Education and Enterprise and Windows 11 22H2 Home and Pro are already reaching EOS on November 8th. Microsoft recently reversed its decision to end the preview updates for Windows 11 22H2 in February and announced it will continue through June.

March Patch Tuesday sees Hyper-V join the guest-host escape club
2024-03-13 00:16

Patch Tuesday Microsoft's monthly patch drop has arrived, delivering a mere 61 CVE-tagged vulnerabilities - none listed as under active attack or already known to the public. "This vulnerability would require an authenticated attacker on a guest VM to send specially crafted file operation requests on the VM to hardware resources on the VM which could result in remote code execution on the host server," according to the security update.

March 2024 Patch Tuesday: Microsoft fixes critical bugs in Windows Hyper-V
2024-03-12 19:55

On this March 2024 Patch Tuesday, Microsoft has released fixes for 59 CVE-numbered vulnerabilities, but - welcome news! - none of them are currently publicly known or actively exploited. One of the two - CVE-2024-21338, an elevation of privilege vulnerability affecting the Windows Kernel - had been reported to Microsoft by Avast researchers, who later shared that it had been leveraged by North Korean hackers for months before the patch was released.

Microsoft March 2024 Patch Tuesday fixes 60 flaws, 18 RCE bugs
2024-03-12 17:52

Today is Microsoft's March 2024 Patch Tuesday, and security updates have been released for 60 vulnerabilities, including eighteen remote code execution flaws.This Patch Tuesday fixes only two critical vulnerabilities: Hyper-V remote code execution and denial of service flaws.

Week in review: Attackers use phishing emails to steal NTLM hashes, Patch Tuesday forecast
2024-03-10 09:00

What organizations need to know about the Digital Operational Resilience ActIn this Help Net Security interview, Kris Lovejoy, Global Security and Resilience Leader at Kyndryl, discusses the impact of the Digital Operational Resilience Act on organizations across the EU, particularly in ICT risk management and cybersecurity. Cisco patches Secure Client VPN flaw that could reveal authentication tokensCisco has fixed two high-severity vulnerabilities affecting its Cisco Secure Client enterprise VPN and endpoint security solution, one of which could be exploited by unauthenticated, remote attackers to grab users' valid SAML authentication token.