Announcements

If your organisation has been affected by any of the following announcements, please contact one of our Security Advisors on +44(0)203 657 0707 or email us at hello@seconcyber.com to discuss how we can assist you.

July 24, 2020

Blackbaud Hack

A ransomware attack on Blackbaud, a hosted platform used by a number of educational institutions, has put the spotlight on incident response. According to a statement on Blackbaud’s website, “In May of 2020, we discovered and stopped a ransomware attack. Prior to our locking the cyber-criminal out, the cyber-criminal removed a copy of a subset of data from our self-hosted environment."

5 Min

July 24, 2020

Vulnerability Allows Remote Hacking of Devices Running Citrix Workspace App

Citrix informed customers this week that it has patched a classified high vulnerability in the automatic update service of its Workspace app for Windows that can allow a local user with escalated privileges or an attacker to remotely hack the computer running the affected application. CVE-2020-8207 impacts Citrix Workspace app for Windows 1912 LTSR and 2002, and it has been patched with the release of versions 1912 LTSR CU1 and 2006.1.

6 Min

July 20, 2020

Press Release: ConnectProtect® Managed Detection and Response

Secon Cyber, a leading cyber security services and solutions company, today announced the launch of ConnectProtect® Managed Detection and Response, a new security service that enables organisations to outsource the monitoring of their digital estate for cyber threats.

12 Min

July 17, 2020

Critical Vulnerabilities Can Be Exploited to Hack Cisco Small Business Routers

Cisco released security advisories to inform customers of several critical vulnerabilities that can be exploited remotely to hack small business routers and firewalls that are no longer being sold. Though no longer being sold by Cisco, apparently they have yet to reach end of support so the company has still patched them.

8 Min

July 15, 2020

CVE-2020-1350 Windows DNS Server Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

On July 14, 2020, Microsoft released a security update for the issue described in CVE-2020-1350 | Windows DNS Server Remote Code Execution Vulnerability. This advisory describes a Critical Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability that affects Windows servers that are configured to run the DNS Server role. We strongly recommend that server administrators apply the security update at their earliest convenience

5 Min

July 12, 2020

Zoom Patches Zero-Day Vulnerability in Windows 7 and Windows 2008 R2

An unpatched and previously unknown security vulnerability has been discovered by a researcher who reached out to the 0patch team disclosing the vulnerability rather than reporting it directly to Zoom. The vulnerability affecting computers running Windows 7 and older OS versions, enables a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on a victim's machine where any supported version of Zoom Client for Windows is installed.

6 Min

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Announcements

Blackbaud Hack

Vulnerability Allows Remote Hacking of Devices Running Citrix Workspace App

Press Release: ConnectProtect® Managed Detection and Response

Critical Vulnerabilities Can Be Exploited to Hack Cisco Small Business Routers

CVE-2020-1350 Windows DNS Server Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Zoom Patches Zero-Day Vulnerability in Windows 7 and Windows 2008 R2

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