Category: rdp

The first in-the-wild BlueKeep attack isn’t as dangerous as feared

Post author By Randall
Post date November 3, 2019
Categories In attack, bluekeep, cryptominer, cryptomining, exploit, gear, Internet, rdp, Security, Tech, vulnerability, windows

[ad_1] There’s been a “spike” in traffic related to the flaw, Rendition Infosec’s Jake Williams told Wired, but it hasn’t hit “critical mass.” This doesn’t rule out the possibility of a more serious BlueKeep attack. There were still 735,000 computers open to BlueKeep as of August, according to Errata Security. However, the window of opportunity […]

Old versions of Windows get a new patch to stop WannaCry-style attacks

Post author By Randall
Post date May 14, 2019
Categories In exploit, gear, Internet, Microsoft, personal computing, personalcomputing, ransomware, rdp, remote desktop protocol, Security, software, Tech, vulnerability, wannacry, windows, windows 2003, windows 7, windows server 2008, windows server 2008 r2, windows xp

[ad_1] The company stressed that it had seen “no exploitation” ahead of the patch, but though it was “highly likely” that malware writers would use the security hole. Some systems that have Network Level Authentication have a partial defense, since they require credentials before the flaw is usable. There’s no doubt as to why Microsoft […]