The patch for the critical flaw that allows malware to spread across machines without any user interaction was released months ago

Although Microsoft issued a patch for the critical SMBGhost vulnerability in the Server Message Block (SMB) protocol back in March, over 100,000 machines remain susceptible to attacks exploiting the flaw. This wormable Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability could allow black hats to spread malware across machines without any need for user interaction.

The severity of the bug affecting Windows 10 and Windows Server (versions 1903 and 1909) should have convinced everybody to patch their machines immediately. However, according to Jan Kopriva, who disclosed his findings on the SANS ISC Infosec Forums, that doesn’t seem to be the case.

Vandana Verma, an IBM security architect, believes in diversity in the infosecurity field. By diversity, she means including not only more women but also people of different races, ages, or educational backgrounds, as well as people with disabilities.

“Growing up, I didn’t know that cybersecurity was a career,” Vandana Verma once said. Now, she is an IBM security engineer, founder of InfosecGirls, the only woman on The OWASP Foundation Global Board, and a keynote speaker at various conferences.

By encoding data as DTMF tones and then modulating them to inaudible frequencies, an Alexa becomes an unwitting carrier for stolen data.

Iran-linked actor targeted international security conference, Microsoft says
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