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October 2023 Patch Tuesday Includes Three Zero-Days Flaws

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Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday for October 2023 covers a total of 103 CVEs, including three zero-day vulnerabilities affecting WordPad, Skype and the HTTP/2 “ Rapid Reset ” DDoS vulnerability. “End-of-life software poses a risk to an organization,” he said.

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Vulnerability Recap 4/15/24 – Palo Alto, Microsoft, Ivanti Exploits

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Threats range from severe weaknesses in Ivanti’s VPN appliances to zero-day exploits in popular software such as Palo Alto Networks’ PAN-OS and Telegram’s Windows client. Typically, these vulnerabilities result in remote code execution or denial-of-service attacks, posing major dangers to users’ data security.

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How Secure Is Cloud Storage? Features, Risks, & Protection

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When assessing the overall security of cloud storage and choosing a solution tailored to your business, it helps to determine its features, potential risks, security measures, and other considerations. DDoS Attacks DDoS attacks flood cloud services with traffic, overwhelming capacity and causing service outages.

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Vulnerability Recap 3/19/24 – Microsoft, Fortinet & More

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However, their security incident response team recommends prioritizing the critical-level arbitrary system file read vulnerability patch for ColdFusion. The fix: Update software using patches from the relevant download center, download page, or link in the instructions for each software.

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Weekly Vulnerability Recap – October 16, 2023 – DDoS, Microsoft, Apple & Linux Lead a Busy Week

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The past week has been an eventful one for cybersecurity vulnerabilities, from record DDoS attacks and three Microsoft zero-days to vulnerabilities in Linux, Apple, Citrix, and other widely used technologies. The botnet compromises these devices and enlists them in its DDoS swarm by exploiting several vulnerabilities in them.

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Complete Guide to the Types of DDoS Attacks

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Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks occur when attackers use a large number of devices to attempt to overwhelm a resource and deny access to that resource for legitimate use. The very first DDoS attacks occurred when network engineers misconfigured networks and overwhelmed components by accident. Volumetric DDoS Attacks.

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Cybersecurity Mergers Flatline. Here’s Why That Won’t Last.

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Also read: Some Cybersecurity Startups Still Attract Funding Despite Headwinds Check Point Software Buys Perimeter 81 Check Point Software announced the purchase of Perimeter 81 in August. Perimeter 81, which was launched in 2018, runs a converged network and security platform to manage in-office and remote workforces.