Alexander V. Leonov

Hello everyone! Microsoft has been acting weird lately. I mean the recent publication of a propaganda report about evil Russians and how Microsoft is involved in the conflict between countries. It wouldn’t be unusual for a US government agency, NSA or CIA to publish such a report. But when a global IT vendor, which, in […]

Hello everyone! In this episode, I will try to revive Security News with a focus on Vulnerability Management. On the one hand, creating such reviews requires free time, which could be spent more wisely, for example, on open source projects or original research. On the other hand, there are arguments in favor of news reviews. […]

Hello everyone! This will be an episode about the Microsoft vulnerabilities that were released on June Patch Tuesday and also between May and June Patch Tuesdays. Alternative video link (for Russia): https://vk.com/video-149273431_456239094 On June Patch Tuesday, June 14, 56 vulnerabilities were released. Between May and June Patch Tuesdays, 38 vulnerabilities were released. This gives us 94 […]

Hello everyone! In this short episode, I want to talk about the new feature in Vulners Linux API. Alternative video link (for Russia): https://vk.com/video-149273431_456239092 Linux security bulletin publication dates are now included in scan results. Why is it useful? A few words why this Linux Audit API is needed. You collect a list of packages […]

Hello everyone! In this episode, I want to talk about the Positive Hack Days 11 conference, which took place on May 18 and 19 in Moscow. As usual, I want to express my personal opinion about this event. Alternative video link (for Russia): https://vk.com/video-149273431_456239091 As I did last year, I want to start talking about this […]

Hello everyone! This episode will be about the AM Live Vulnerability Management online conference. I participated in it on May 17th. Alternative video link (for Russia): https://vk.com/video-149273431_456239090 The event lasted 2 hours. Repeating everything that has been said is difficult and makes little sense. Those who want can watch the full video or read the […]

Hello everyone! This episode will be about Microsoft Patch Tuesday for May 2022. Sorry for the delay, this month has been quite intense. As usual, I’m using my Vulristics project and going through not only the vulnerabilities that were presented on May 10th, but all the MS vulnerabilities presented by Microsoft since the previous Patch […]

Hello everyone! In this episode, I want to talk about the latest updates to my open source vulnerability prioritization project Vulristics. Alternative video link (for Russia): https://vk.com/video-149273431_456239088 CVSS redefinitions A fairly common problem: we have a CVE without an available CVSS vector and score. For example, this was the case with CVE-2022-1364 Type Confusion in […]

Hello everyone! This video was recorded for the VMconf 22 Vulnerability Management conference, vmconf.pw. I will be talking about malicious open source and the cost of using someone else’s code. Alternative video link (for Russia): https://vk.com/video-149273431_456239086Video in Russian from CISO Forum 2022: https://youtu.be/LPXg-MEamVA To be honest, at the beginning of the year I did not […]

Hello everyone! This episode will be about Microsoft Patch Tuesday for April 2022 and new improvements in my Vulristics project. I decided to add more comment sources. Because it’s not just Tenable, Qualys, Rapid7 and ZDI make Microsoft Patch Tuesday reviews, but also other security companies and bloggers. Alternative video link (for Russia): https://vk.com/video-149273431_456239085 You can […]