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The bugs impact Cisco Jabber for Windows, macOS, and mobile platforms, and are not dependable to one another. To successfully exploit them, an attacker would need to be authenticated to an Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) server in use by the affected software and to be able to send XMPP messages. The most important […]

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Cybercriminals can exploit Microsoft Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) as a powerful tool to amplify distributed denial-of-service (DDoS attacks), new research has found. Attackers can abuse RDP to launch UDP reflection/amplification attacks with an amplification ratio of 85.9:1, principal engineer Roland Dobbins and senior network security analyst Steinthor Bjarnason from Netscout said in a report published […]

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Tracked as CVE-2020-1472 and addressed on August 2020 Patch Tuesday, the critical vulnerability was identified in the Microsoft Windows Netlogon Remote Protocol (MS-NRPC) and can be abused to compromise Active Directory domain controllers and gain admin access. Exploitable by unauthenticated attackers able to run a specially crafted application on a device on the network, the […]

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