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Author Archives: minsterg

IT SECURITY ALERTs Phish

Below is an image of an email sent by a Tony Burr.  Even though this came from a Google Drive sharing address, this is instead a phishing email impersonating a TCNJ employee.  These often contain a mismatched sender to the person stated as the file sharer.  You can also see the sender address is not… Continue Reading

It’s Cybersecurity Month 2022!

It’s October, and that means it’s Cybersecurity Month!  This year’s theme for Cybersecurity Month is “See Yourself in Cyber.”  Seeing yourself in cybersecurity means to look at the things you do every day, both at work, at home and elsewhere, and see where you can do things to better protect yourself and others.  Things such… Continue Reading

EXPLOIT – CVE-2021-30860 – FORCEDENTRY zero-day exploit on Apple devices

The FORCEDENTRY vulnerability was discovered last week by CitizenLab.  This vulnerability allows attackers to craft malicious PDF files which the device then process and runs the attackers code, leading to data theft, impersonation and potential device takeover.  This vulnerability exploits Apple’s image rendering library, CoreGraphics and requires no interaction from the user once the text… Continue Reading

Exploit – CVE-2021-40444 – MSHTML RCE Vulnerbility via malicious Microsoft Office documents

This week Microsoft reported that they are seeing this vulnerability being actively exploited in the wild.  The attacker crafts a Microsoft Office document which contains a malicious ActiveX control, that once installed, grants the attacker the same rights as the user who opened the document.  This can allow the attacker to run code, install and… Continue Reading

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