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Patch Tuesday October 2024

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8 months ago

Microsoft releases security patches for vulnerabilities in its products on the second Tuesday of each month. Immersive Labs' Cyber Threat Research Team reviews these patch notes for the standout vulnerabilities you need to know about.

CVE-2024-43572 - 7.8 - Microsoft Management Console Remote Code Execution Vulnerability Top of the list for patching should be a vulnerability in the Microsoft Management Console. While the CVSS sc...
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Kev Breen currently serves as Senior Director of Cyber Threat Research at Immersive, where he helps organizations assess, build, and prove their Cyber Workforce Resilience. He is a renowned expert on new and emerging threats. Prior to his time at Immersive , Breen spent 15 years in the military with the Royal Signals, starting as a radio technician repairing radio electronics and communications, before moving on to digital networks specialising as a malware analyst protecting UK MOD networks against cyber attacks. With over two decades of experience in IT and cybersecurity, Breen has learned the tradecraft for defensive, offensive, and deceptive cyber operations. Breen has conducted extensive open-source research, including creating and releasing toolkits for network defenders, mainly for malware analysis and decryption, as well as writing the YARA rules, which are still recommended by VirusTotal. Breen’s open-source research gets a lot of attention, not only from the cybersecurity community, but also from the threat actors themselves.
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I am an information security professional with experience in Cyber Security, DevSecOps, System and Network Administration, and technical-related roles. I work as a cybersecurity engineer within the Cyber Team at Immersive Labs.
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Rob is a Principal Cyber Security Engineer at Immersive, primarily working with Exercising and Ranges. His background is as a Pentester and Red Teamer with a number of years industry experience working for a large UK consultancy before joining Immersive, and prior to that spent 10 years in the British Army.
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