Vulnerability Spotlight: Remote code execution bugs in NVIDIA D3D10 driver
Piotr Bania of Cisco Talos discovered this vulnerability. Blog by Jon Munshaw. Cisco Talos recently discovered multiple remote code execution…
Detecting Microsoft 365 and Azure Active Directory Backdoors
Mandiant has seen an uptick in incidents involving Microsoft 365 (M365) and Azure Active Directory (Azure AD). Most of these…
LodaRAT Update: Alive and Well
By Chris Neal. During our continuous monitoring of LodaRAT, Cisco Talos observed changes in the threat that add new functionality.…
Security – Best practices for 3rd party users
SANS ISC shares best security practices for non-employees who are often clients, business partners, vendors, etc. The theme is to…
Microsoft Netlogon exploitation continues to rise
Cisco Talos is tracking a spike in exploitation attempts against the Microsoft vulnerability CVE-2020-1472, an elevation of privilege bug in…
Seagate HAMR – 20TB worlds largest disk drive
https://www.pcmag.com/news/seagate-confirms-worlds-largest-hard-disk-drive-on-track-for-december Seagate’s first hard drives with heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) are set to arrive later this year. According to the company’s product…
Microsoft Ignite 2020 – keynote and conference highlights
From the Microsoft Ignite 2020 conference, below are u-tube videos capturing the keynote and conference highlights
Microsoft Defender – new rebranded name for enterprise suite
Microsoft is centering on naming conventions of “Microsoft Defender” for it’s suite of enterprise protection products: https://redmondmag.com/articles/2020/09/28/microsoft-rebrands-enterprise-security-solutions.aspx Security Product Name…
Malware – LokiBot alert by CISA SEP-2020
CISA has issued special awareness regarding increased activity by this stealth malware which captures USER-ID & PSWD information as user…
Leadership – Building rapport while wearing MASK
This Harvard Business Review article focuses on how to maintain & build rapport while wearing a MASK during the virus…