Hyper-V – Computer Security Articles

Organizations should look at last month’s and this month’s bulletins and put their Hyper-V and Active Directory servers and infrastructure at the top of the priority list.

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Patch Tuesday targets Hyper-V virtual machines in November, 2019 updates

November 12, 2019 admin 2019-11, ChakraCore, Hyper-V, IE, Kernel, microsoft, Patch Tuesday, SophosLabs Uncut, VBScript, windows, Windows subsystem for Linux, wsl

Credit to Author: SophosLabs Offensive Security| Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2019 17:15:50 +0000

Microsoft released their monthly security updates for November, 2019, this morning. This month, Microsoft said the company fixed a total of 73 vulnerabilities across its product lines. Thirteen of the fixes address problems Microsoft classifies as Critical, the most urgent type of problem to address. The company classified the repair of an additional 59 bugs […]<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/BBm3ctmT8pE” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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August, 2019 Patch Tuesday Targets Remote Desktop and Active Directory

August 30, 2019 admin ChakraCore, DHCP, Edge, Hyper-V, Internet Explorer, Patch Tuesday, RDP, SophosLabs Uncut, windows

Credit to Author: SophosLabs Offensive Security| Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2019 16:28:14 +0000

Among the 94 vulnerabilities fixed this month by Microsoft, 29 are rated as Critical. Most importantly, the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) and its associated service (RDS) collect a total of 6 CVEs, which seems to show a renewed interest in the RDP protocol by vulnerability researchers; two of those classified as wormable (CVE-2019-1181 and CVE-2019-1182) […]<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/1hDq4cmGQ80″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Patch Tuesday squashes 89 bugs-including a SophosLabs find

June 11, 2019 admin adobe, Chakra, ChakraCore, Edge, Exploits, Flash Player, Hyper-V, microsoft, Patch Tuesday, polar bears, SandboxEscaper, SophosLabs Uncut, Updates, VBScript, Vulnerability, windows

Credit to Author: SophosLabs Offensive Security| Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2019 21:20:51 +0000

No bugs known to be exploited in the wild, but plenty of serious flaws that need updates<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/l4pze2u2S-k” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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DHCP, Edge, Office, Hyper-V Receive Critical New Year Updates

January 28, 2019 admin DHCP, Edge, Hyper-V, microsoft, Patch Tuesday, SophosLabs Uncut

Credit to Author: Andrew Brandt| Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2019 17:30:52 +0000

Just connecting to a (malicious) wireless network could lead to Bad Things Happening, but none of the patched bugs have been seen in the wild (yet!)<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/a-RO7S2VeRA” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>