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Microsoft’s December 2023 Patch Tuesday Includes Four Critical Flaws

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Microsoft announced only one zero-day flaw this month: CVE-2023-20588 , which is found in AMD processors. Four Critical Vulnerabilities Announced The first of the four critical flaws announced, CVE-2023-35628 , is a remote code execution vulnerability in the Windows MSHTML platform with a CVSS score of 8.1.

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Weekly Vulnerability Recap – September 4, 2023 – Attackers Hit Network Devices and More

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Collectively, these episodes highlight the need for comprehensive cybersecurity defenses and timely patch management for risk mitigation. CVE-2023-3519 was used by the attackers to infect computers, including misleading PowerShell scripts, malware payloads within normal processes, and PHP web shells for remote control. are affected.

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Weekly Vulnerability Recap – November 6, 2023 – Windows Drivers and Exchange Flaws

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30, 2023 NGINX Ingress Controller for Kubernetes Flaws Can Lead to Credential Theft Type of Attack: Path sanitization bypass and injection vulnerabilities discovered in the NGINX Ingress controller can allow for credential theft, arbitrary command execution, and critical data access. CVE-2023-5044 (Code Injection): This CVSS score 7.6

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Recent Tesla Hacks Highlight Importance of Protecting Connected Devices

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Teslas Get the Spotlight in Recent Ethical Hacking Efforts Researchers have discovered multiple vulnerabilities within Teslas since March 2023. Rapid7’s Zero Day Initiative hosts an event called Pwn2Own, and at the 2023 event, computer security firm Synactiv hacked a Tesla computer within two minutes.

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Why BYOD Is the Favored Ransomware Backdoor

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Most Compromises Exploit Unmanaged Devices Microsoft’s fourth annual Digital Defense Report for 2023 reveals that 80% of all ransomware compromises come from unmanaged devices and that 60% of those attacks use remote encryption. Sophos X-Ops illustrates how remote encryption operates beyond security tool detection.