Security News

Microsoft fixes 25 critical issues in August Patch Tuesday (Help Net Security)
2017-08-09 17:40

The Microsoft August 2017 Patch Tuesday update has landed and contains patches for 48 vulnerabilities, 25 of which are for critical issues. 27 of the vulnerabilities can be exploited to achieve...

Microsoft Patches Critical Windows Search Vulnerability (Threatpost)
2017-08-08 21:21

Microsoft patched 25 critical vulnerabilities, including a remote code execution bug in Windows Search.

Microsoft Patches Windows Search Flaw Exploited in Attacks (Security Week)
2017-08-08 19:08

Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday updates for August 2017 address a total of 48 vulnerabilities in Windows, Internet Explorer, Edge, SQL Server, SharePoint Server, Office and Outlook. read more

Microsoft to Ban WoSign, StartCom Certificates (Security Week)
2017-08-08 14:58

Windows Will Not Trust New Certificates Issued by WoSign and StartCom After September 2017 Microsoft has finally announced its decision in the case of Chinese certificate authority (CA) WoSign and...

Microsoft Issues Security Patches for 25 Critical Vulnerabilities (The Hackers News)
2017-08-08 12:15

Here we are again… As part of its August Patch Tuesday, Microsoft has today released a large batch of 48 security updates for all supported versions Windows systems and other products. This...

Windows 10 Can Detect PowerShell Attacks: Microsoft (Security Week)
2017-08-04 16:19

Windows 10 can detect suspicious PowerShell activities, code injection, and malicious documents, including attacks where a process connects to a web server and starts dropping and launching an...

Microsoft Makes Third Attempt at Fixing Old Stuxnet Flaw (Security Week)
2017-08-04 12:39

One of the patches released by Microsoft as part of its June 2017 security updates represents the company’s third attempt at patching an old vulnerability exploited by the notorious Stuxnet worm...

Microsoft Patches Several Outlook Vulnerabilities (Security Week)
2017-08-01 10:42

Microsoft has released patches for several important vulnerabilities affecting Outlook, the professional email and calendar application included in the Office suite. read more

Microsoft Releases Outlook and Office Click-to-Run Patches (Threatpost)
2017-07-31 17:00

Microsoft patched three new Outlook vulnerabilities and re-released updates from a broken June update.

Microsoft Battles Fancy Bear Hackers - With Lawyers (InfoRiskToday)
2017-07-31 09:48

Analysis: Malicious Code-Writing Teams Versus Billable Hours: Fair Fight?To battle Russian hackers, Microsoft has moved to strip them of their malicious infrastructure. To do so, however, the...