Understanding Software Update Failures and Their Consequences

Three Buddy Problem - Episode 8: This week’s show digs into Microsoft’s in-the-wild zero-day woes, Patch Tuesday and the absence of IOCs, a wormable Windows TCP/IP flaw that the Chinese government knew about for months, Iran’s aggressive hacking US election targets, CrowdStrike v Qihoo360 and major problems with APT naming conventions.

Hosts: Costin Raiu (Art of Noh), Juan Andres Guerrero-Saade (SentinelLabs), Ryan Naraine (SecurityWeek)

Links:

• Episode 8 Transcript
• Six Windows Zero-Days Being Actively Exploited
• CVE-2024-38063 - Windows Ping of Death
• Wormable TCP/IP flaw known to China — Chinese researcher Xiao Wei of Cyber KunLun said he discovered the vulnerability “several months ago.”
• Google TAG: Iran steps hacking against Israel, U.S.
• Microsoft report on Iran election hacking
• Qihoo claims CrowdStrike bug exploitable
• CrowdStrike root cause analysis
• LABScon - Speakers 2024