Tag: Vulnerability

CVE-2019-0708: Winter Doesn’t Have to Come Today

For those of you not in love with Game of Thrones Season 8 (see the petition asking HBO to redo this season), Microsoft Patch Tuesday is offering its own degree of dramatic flare. On Tuesday, May 14, Simon Pope, Director of Incident Response, Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) wrote the blog post, “Prevent a worm by updating Remote Desktop Services (CVE-2019-0708). He said, “In other words, the vulnerability is ‘wormable’, meaning that any…

May 21, 2019 Flexera

Recent RDS Vulnerability, and What EOL Software Means for You

Once again, a vulnerability has been discovered in older Microsoft Windows operating systems that will likely lead to some long nights and grumpy IT personnel. When a situation like this presents itself the first thing that should be done is to take a deep breath (seriously, calm down) and secondly to review the latest assessment of the hosts in your environment. Hopefully one has access to details about the operating systems in use, how many the…

May 20, 2019 Dylan Hudak