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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. CVE-2023-41763 , an elevation of privilege vulnerability in Skype for Business with a CVSS score of 5.3

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

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Frequent Ransomware Target QNAP Discloses 3 Vulnerabilities Type of vulnerability: Improper authentication, injection vulnerability, SQL injection (SQLi). The other two vulnerabilities, CVE-2024-21900 and CVE-2024-21901, only merit medium ratings because they require authentication.

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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. Insecure Interfaces/APIs Attackers can use interface and API flaws to modify or circumvent security protections.

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Public Cloud Security Explained: Everything You Need to Know

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Authentication guarantees that users are who they say they are, typically through usernames and passwords or multi-factor authentication (MFA). Authorization governs what activities users are permitted to take after being authenticated. To enhance security in a public cloud environment: Use strong authentication.

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What Is a Circuit-Level Gateway? Definitive Guide

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Dropped packets also defend against many different types of distributed denial of service attacks (DDoS) that attempt to consume server resources with TCP packets unrelated to established connections such as ACK-floods and SYN-floods. It conducts the handshake process to complete authentication and authorization with the host.

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What Is Cloud Workload Protection? Ultimate Guide

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While cloud service providers (CSPs) offer their own native security, CWPP offers an additional layer of customized protection and management to fit the demands of workloads. Workload settings, software inventories, network connections, and user access privileges are all visible using CWPP tools.