Security News

Xton Access Manager now includes RDP, SSH and HTTP proxy support
2020-02-05 03:00

Xton Technologies, a provider of privileged access management solutions, announced that Xton Access Manager now includes advanced proxy support for RDP, SSH and web proxies allowing customers to create secure, high trust remote sessions with full session recording and keystroke monitoring using native desktop or mobile applications. "Unique to XTAM is our ability to securely lock credentials on the server-side without ever releasing them to the client computer even in an encrypted form. This provides administrators with secure and efficient access to the systems they need to do their jobs while satisfying audit and senior management requirements for just in time secure access and controls."

Welcome to the 2020s: Booby-trapped Office files, NSA tipping off Windows code-signing bugs, RDP flaws...
2020-01-14 21:33

Amid Uncle Sam's dire warnings, Microsoft said there is no evidence of the flaw being targeted in the wild and its severity level is listed as "Important," a step below the critical remote code execution bugs in RDP,.NET and Internet Explorer. The American spying agency wants everyone to know - to the point of even holding a press conference about CVE-2020-0601 - that it privately found and reported this diabolical cert flaw to Microsoft, and that it is a totally friendly mass-surveillance system that has turned a new leaf, wants to be on the good side of infosec researchers, and cares about your ongoing ability to verify the origin and integrity of executable files and network connections.

RDP loves company: Kaspersky finds 37 security holes in VNC remote desktop software
2019-11-23 00:38

BlueKeep isn't the only bug in town, plenty to go round VNC remote desktop software has no shortage of potentially serious memory-corruption vulnerabilities, you'll no doubt be shocked to hear.…

Ransomware Gangs' Not-So-Secret Attack Vector: RDP Exploits
2019-11-04 15:49

But RDP Attack Overuse Leads Other Hackers Back to Botnets, Researchers FindMany ransomware-wielding attackers continue to hack into organizations via remote desktop protocol. But some Sodinokibi...

First Cyber Attack 'Mass Exploiting' BlueKeep RDP Flaw Spotted in the Wild
2019-11-03 11:04

Cybersecurity researchers have spotted a new cyberattack, which is believed to be the very first but amateur attempt to weaponize the infamous BlueKeep RDP vulnerability in the wild to mass...

Week in review: IE zero-day, S3 bucket security, rise of RDP as a target vector
2019-09-29 15:00

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles and podcasts: Cybersecurity automation? Yes, wherever possible Automated systems are invaluable when it comes to...

Organizations Warned of Dual Threat Posed by RDP and Disruptive Ransomware
2019-09-25 14:22

In a paper warning about the evolution of what it calls 'disruptionware', the Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology (ICIT) highlights ransomware and RDP access as the current focus of a...

Rise of RDP as a target vector
2019-09-25 05:30

Recent reports of targeted attacks using RDP as an initial entry vector have certainly caused significant headlines in lieu of the impact they have caused. In the midst of city wide impacts, or...

Exposed RDP servers see 150K brute-force attempts per week: Here's how to protect them
2019-09-18 13:00

BlueKeep and DejaBlue renewed interest in brute-force scanning for vulnerable systems, which negatively impacts Windows Server performance. Cameyo offers solutions to protect your Virtual Desktop server.

It's 2019, and Windows PCs can be pwned via a shortcut file, a webpage, an evil RDP server...
2019-09-10 20:54

Microsoft joins Adobe and SAP in cleaning up security bugs, two of which are under active attack Patch Tuesday Microsoft, Adobe, and SAP today delivered a load of security updates for this month's...