During the November 2014 Patch Tuesday, Microsoft has released Security Bulletin MS114-077, that describes how a vulnerability in Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) could allow unintentional information disclosure and how you can fix this by installing the security update that is part of KB3003381 on your Active Directory Federation Servers, including proxies. About MS14-077 … Continue reading "Update your Federation Servers with MS14-077 to patch CVE-2014-6331 (Important)"
Category: Security Updates
Security Updates
Security Thoughts: Passwords in Group Policy Preferences (CVE-2014-1812)
Last week, Microsoft released Security Bulletin MS04-025, including guidance and an update that resolves a publicly disclosed vulnerability in Microsoft Windows. The vulnerability could allow elevation of privilege if Active Directory Group Policy preferences are used to distribute passwords across the domain – a practice that could allow an attacker to retrieve and decrypt the … Continue reading "Security Thoughts: Passwords in Group Policy Preferences (CVE-2014-1812)"
Security Thoughts: The Inconvenient Truth about CVE-2014-1776 (aka “The Windows XP Mega Vulnerability”)
Looking at the news these last couple of days, you’d think the XPocalypse has begun. A vulnerability has been discovered in Internet Explorer 6 through 11 and code has been made publicly available to attack it. Since, according to several websites, this is a critical vulnerability that was discovered after Microsoft officially ended support for … Continue reading "Security Thoughts: The Inconvenient Truth about CVE-2014-1776 (aka “The Windows XP Mega Vulnerability”)"
Updating Windows XP with all its updates
You may have read my blogpost on the actions admins need to take to continue working with Windows XP in their networking environments. It’s a long list. While many blogs and websites have shared similar information, one action is on everybody’s list: Update Windows XP with the latest updates. So, how easy is it to … Continue reading "Updating Windows XP with all its updates"
MS13-032 Vulnerability in Active Directory Could Allow Remote Code Execution (Important)
It’s not often, that Active Directory Domain Controllers get security updates. The Active Directory Domain Services Server Role is one of the most robustly written code, as I pointed out in an earlier blogpost on Statistics on Active Directory-related Security Bulletins. Since 2001, Microsoft has issued 18 Security Bulletins with patches to address issues in … Continue reading "MS13-032 Vulnerability in Active Directory Could Allow Remote Code Execution (Important)"