Exchange Server

In this edition of This Week in IT, at CES AMD releases its Ryzen 6000 series CPUs with Microsoft’s Pluton security chip and Intel announces its 12th generation hybrid architecture CPUs for mobile devices, but can they compete with the Apple M1 chip? Microsoft releases a hangover cure for Exchange Server administrators to solve their…

Microsoft released 71 fixes this month, 3 of which are rated Critical and 68 Important. While three are publicly known at the time they were released, none are believed to be in active use by hackers. Windows and Windows Server Microsoft released an update for CVE-2022-21990, which is a Remote Desktop Client (RDP) remote code…

Microsoft patches a wormable bug in http.sys in Windows and Windows Server. There are also fixes for three remote code execution vulnerabilities in Exchange Server. And Adobe releases fixes for 26 flaws in Acrobat and Reader. So, let’s get started! Windows and Windows Server This month there are fixes for six zero-days in Windows and…

SonicWall, the cyber-security provider has announced that the Y2K22 bug has affected some of its email security and firewall products. The company released new patches last week to address the issue, which has been causing junk box and message log updates failures since January 1, 2022. As the cyber-security firm explained, the SonicWall Y2K22 bug…

Microsoft has released an official fix for the “Y2K22” bug that was previously preventing on-premise Exchange servers from sending emails. This issue started at midnight on January 1st, 2022, and it was causing emails to get stuck in transport queues due to a date check failure in the FIP-FS anti-malware scanning engine. The Microsoft Exchange Y2K22…

Patch Tuesday in November 2021 sees Microsoft release patches to address 55 CVEs, including fixes for 6 zero-day bugs. There are updates for products including Windows, Windows Server, Office, Exchange Server, Active Directory, Microsoft Dynamics, Hyper-V, and Azure Real Time Operating System (RTOS), which is ThreadX RTOS, an embedded real-time operating system that Microsoft purchased…

This month’s Patch Tuesday for includes a cumulative update (CU) for Windows 11, which was made generally available October 4th. In total Microsoft released patches addressing 71 CVEs in Windows, Edge, Exchange Server, .NET Core, SharePoint Server, and many other products. Two of the CVEs patched this month are rated Critical, and 68 Important. And…

The LockFile ransomware group has been actively launching attacks against Microsoft Exchange Servers, exploiting three vulnerabilities that were patched by Microsoft in April and May this year. Known as the Exchange Server ProxyShell vulnerabilities, the LockFile group uses them, in conjunction with the Windows PetitPotam vulnerabilities that were partially patched in the round of updates…

Microsoft released patches to fix 82 security bugs in Windows and other software this month. There are critical bugs in IE, Exchange Server, and Windows Server DNS. Windows and Windows Server Windows gets two patches for critical remote code execution (RCE) flaws. CVE-2021-26876 is a vulnerability in OpenType font parsing and CVE-2021-26867 is a flaw…

Microsoft has released several new patches for Exchange Server after they discovered an active 0-day vulnerability.