PC Security and Other Useful Information

Once more a malware installed on Point of Sale terminals… A Month After 2 Million Customer Cards Sold Online, Buca di Beppo Parent Admits Breach

Windows 10 Update 1809 – Syncing of Timeline no longer working and Cloud Clipboard doesn’t sync either If you encounter this, try the following instructions. If the 3 keys don’t exist, create them. Step 1: Press the ‘Windows‘ key and the ‘R‘ key from your keyboard and type ‘Regedit‘ and hit Enter. Step 2: On […]

Security Mailer Volume 19 Number 11 Adobe security updates: Digital Editions Photoshop Mozilla launches Firefox Send Cisco Security Advisories Linux updates Microsoft: Tuesday patches over 60 vulnerabilities including two 0-days that are already being exploited Security Update Revisions Security Advisories Office updates SHA-2 code signing General Security reviews last two weeks vulnerabilities VM Ware Security […]

Multi-Factor Auth Bypassed in Office 365 and G Suite IMAP Attacks “Massive IMAP-based password-spraying attacks successfully breached Microsoft Office 365 and G Suite accounts, circumventing multi-factor authentication (MFA) according to an analysis by Proofpoint. This technique takes advantage of the fact that the legacy authentication IMAP protocol bypasses MFA, allowing malicious actors to perform credential […]

Thanks to Michael L. Bell, MCP Lead DS Analyst II  – Security  Patch Management KB Article Applies To 4489878 Windows 7 Service Pack 1, Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 (Monthly Rollup) Symptom Workaround After installing this update, Internet Explorer 10 may have authentication issues. This occurs when two or more people use the same user […]

This month, there are 6 security updates https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4462226/description-of-the-security-update-for-office-2010-march-12-2019 https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4462199/description-of-the-security-update-for-sharepoint-server-2019-march-12 https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4462211/description-of-the-security-update-for-sharepoint-enterprise-server https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4462184/description-of-the-security-update-for-sharepoint-server-2010-march-12 https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4462208/description-of-the-security-update-for-sharepoint-foundation-2013 https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4462202/description-of-the-security-update-for-sharepoint-enterprise-server (Thanks, Susan Bradley)

Security Bulletins Posted “Adobe has published security bulletins for Adobe Digital Editions and Adobe Photoshop CC. Adobe recommends users update their product installations to the latest versions using the instructions referenced in the bulletin.”

Patch Tuesday, March 2019 Edition

Microsoft Sees 250% Phishing Increase, Malware Decline by 34% “Phishing attacks have seen an impressive 250% increase between January and December 2018, with attackers moving to multiple points of attacks during the same campaign, switching between URLs, domains, and servers when sending e-mails and hosting phishing forms.”

Security Mailer Volume 19 Number 9 Adobe Security updates for Cold Fusion, Shockwave retirement announced Browsers – Mozilla updates Thunderbird Firefox Cisco security advisories include urgent fix for Wireless-N VPN routers Linux updates General Security reviews last week Drupal sites hacked WinRAR now under active attack DMA attacks