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DDoS attack on EU parliament after resolution condemning Russia as supporting terror

Posted on 2022-11-24 by guenni

Yesterday, the European Parliament approved a resolution labeling Russia as supporting terrorism. Hours later, the EU Parliament's websites were attacked by cyberattacks. The President of the European Parliament, Roberta Metsola, confirmed the cyberattack on Twitter. IT experts tried to repel … Continue reading →

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Global Cyber Risk at Elevated Level

Posted on 2022-11-22 by guenni

Security provider Trend Micro (TM) has now presented its Cyber Risk Index (CRI) for the first half of 2022. According to TM, the global cyber risk is at an elevated level. Many companies surveyed said they had experienced security incidents … Continue reading →

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OpenLiteSpeed vulnerabilities put web server at risk

Posted on 2022-11-20 by guenni

[German]A few days ago, security researchers from Palo Alto Networks pointed out that three OpenLiteSpeed security vulnerabilities threaten the security of the web servers in question. The OpenLiteSpeed web servers are among the sixth most popular web servers in the … Continue reading →

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Hive ransomware gang looted 100 million from 1,300 victims (including Media Markt)

Posted on 2022-11-19 by guenni

[German]German Electronics retailer Media Markt was the victim of a Hive ransomware attack in 2021. I had heard something about a $240 million ransom demand at the time. Now the FBI has put the damage caused by the Hive gang … Continue reading →

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Windows Server 2012 R2: Sophos user authentication using heartbeat disabled on RDS servers

Posted on 2022-11-15 by guenni

[German]Brief note for administrators running Windows Server 2012 R2 who rely on Sophos user authentication via Sophos Security Heartbeats. Sophos has distributed an update that silently overrides the feature on Windows Server 2012 R2. A blog reader informed me of … Continue reading →

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Why ISL Online: Critical factors when choosing a remote desktop solution

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Microsoft Office Online Server: Unfixed RCE vulnerability

Posted on 2022-11-13 by guenni

[German]As of November 8, 2022, Microsoft has released security updates for its Office Online servers to close vulnerabilities in Word and Excel. According to my information, a vulnerability exists (Server-Side Request Forgery, SSRF, to RCE, Remote Code Execution) that Microsoft … Continue reading →

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Russian-Canadian lockbit affiliate arrested in Canada

Posted on 2022-11-12 by guenni

[German]Law enforcement officials have now struck a blow against a member (or an affiliate, who obtains the ransomware in exchange for participation and uses it on his own account) of the Lockbit ransomware gang. A person with Russian-Canadian citizenship was … Continue reading →

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Medibank and Deutsche Bank hacked by the same thread actor

Posted on 2022-11-11 by guenni

[German]Currently, the hack of the Australian healthcare company Medibank is shaking Down-Under. This is because the attacker is offering millions of patient data on the darknet. Shortly before that, the Australian telecom provider Optus was hacked and millions of customer … Continue reading →

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Patchday: Microsoft Office Updates (November 8, 2022)

Posted on 2022-11-10 by guenni

[German]On (November 8, 2022 (second Tuesday of the month, Microsoft Patchday), Microsoft released several security-related updates for still-supported Microsoft Office versions and other products. The updates are available for the installable MSI version of Microsoft Office (the click-to-run packages obtain … Continue reading →

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Windows 7/Server 2008 R2; Windows 8.1/Server 2012 R2: Updates (November 8, 2022)

Posted on 2022-11-09 by guenni

[German]Microsoft has also released security updates for Windows 7 and 8.1 as well as for the Windows Server counterparts 2008 R2 and 2012/R2 on Patchday. Here is an overview of these updates for Windows 7/8.1 and the corresponding Windows Server … Continue reading →

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