security Archives - Blog Encounters https://blogencounters.com/tag/security/ More Useful, Everyday! Mon, 16 Mar 2020 02:39:35 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://blogencounters.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/belogo-48x48.jpg security Archives - Blog Encounters https://blogencounters.com/tag/security/ 32 32 Critical Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows Operating Systems (January 2020) https://blogencounters.com/202001/critical-vulnerabilities-in-microsoft-windows-operating-systems-january-2020/ https://blogencounters.com/202001/critical-vulnerabilities-in-microsoft-windows-operating-systems-january-2020/#respond Tue, 14 Jan 2020 20:40:13 +0000 https://blogencounters.com/?p=3899 Estimated Reading Time: 4 Minutes

Critical Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows Operating Systems (January 2020) Summary: On January 14, 2020, Microsoft released software fixes to address 49 vulnerabilities as part of their monthly Patch Tuesday announcement. Among the vulnerabilities patched were [Read More...]

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]]> https://blogencounters.com/202001/critical-vulnerabilities-in-microsoft-windows-operating-systems-january-2020/feed/ 0 The BlueKeep (CVE-2019-0708) Vulnerability https://blogencounters.com/201906/the-bluekeep-cve-2019-0708-vulnerability/ https://blogencounters.com/201906/the-bluekeep-cve-2019-0708-vulnerability/#respond Wed, 19 Jun 2019 04:06:13 +0000 https://blogencounters.com/?p=3842 Estimated Reading Time: 2 Minutes

The BlueKeep (CVE-2019-0708) Vulnerability Quick Summary A recently discovered, critical, flaw affecting Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) in multiple versions of Microsoft Windows has been discovered. Both Microsoft and the Department Of Homeland Security strongly urges [Read More...]

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Urgent WordPress Upgrade Alert For those running WordPress to host their blogs/website, please be aware a recent vulnerability has been discovered on WordPress v4.7.1 and older that allows remote execution of some SQL commands.  Attackers [Read More...]

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]]> https://blogencounters.com/201702/urgent-wordpress-upgrade-alert/feed/ 0 Netgear Router Security Advisory https://blogencounters.com/201612/netgear-router-security-advisory/ https://blogencounters.com/201612/netgear-router-security-advisory/#respond Tue, 20 Dec 2016 01:28:51 +0000 https://blogencounters.com/?p=2331 Estimated Reading Time: < 1 Minute

Netgear Router Security Advisory Netgear has recently issued a security advisory to users of its routers, where unauthenticated web pages can pass form input directly to the command line interface.  A remote attacker can potentially [Read More...]

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Unable To Launch Legacy Java Applications With Java 7.x Installed You are on page 1/2. You are unable to launch older Java applications with Java 7 Update 45 or higher installed due to new security [Read More...]

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