On Thursday this week (16 June 2022 at 15:00 UK time), we’re holding a free webinar wherein we’ll provide you with a reside clarification and demonstration of the “Follina” vulnerability.
Though this bug is pretty straightforward to take care of (a easy registry change rolled out through Group Coverage will largely immunise your community from assault), it nonetheless tells a captivating story.
Follina, or CVE-2022-30190 if you happen to want to maintain issues official, is an intriguing instance of how cybercriminals found out learn how to mix a “function” that nobody actually wished with a “function” that nobody actually wanted…
…to create a sneaky assault trick that nobody anticipated.
In easy phrases, FEATURE + FEATURE = BUG!?
What you’ll be taught
In the event you’re hoping for PowerPoint slides and bullet factors, adopted by a product pitch, then this discuss isn’t for you.
However if you happen to like to observe technically-oriented demos that don’t require you to be a technical professional your self, we predict you’ll take pleasure in your self.
We’ll present you:
- How and why the bug works.
- Learn how to examine safety holes like this one safely.
- The way it might catch your customers out.
- Learn how to defend your self and your community.
We’ll additionally check out different “options” in Home windows that would result in related issues, and what to do about these, too.
We’ll hold the jargon to a minimal, so that you don’t must be a sysadmin or a SecOps coder to attend…
…however in case you are, you’ll nonetheless be taught tons of suggestions and methods for monitoring down technological hassle.
As certainly one of our readers mentioned, after trying within the Home windows registry to see what number of Follina-like issues may nonetheless be lurking within the shadows:
Yuck, I simply went into the registry to see what different ‘undocumented options’ are in HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT. What did I discover? Job safety.
The demo will take roughly half-hour, adopted by 10 minutes of official Q&A time, after which we’ll be staying on-line informally for anybody who has additional questions on this or any associated subjects.
Join now! (E-mail tackle required for registration.)
Date: Thursday 2022-06-16
Time: 3pm UK time (10:00 EDT, 14:00 UTC, 15:00 BST, 16:00 CEST)
Size: 30 minutes + 10 minutes Q&A + casual session after that
