Security News

Windows Defender Immune to AVGater Quarantine Flaw: Microsoft
2017-11-14 15:37

A recently disclosed vulnerability that allows an attacker to abuse the quarantine feature of anti-virus products to escalate privileges doesn’t affect Windows Defender, Microsoft says. read more

Microsoft Uses Neural Networks to Improve Fuzzing
2017-11-14 07:10

A team of Microsoft researchers has been working on improving fuzzing techniques by using deep neural networks, and initial tests have shown promising results. read more

Microsoft offers mitigation advice for DDE attacks scenarios
2017-11-09 20:25

Microsoft has published a security advisorty containing DDE attack mitigation instructions for both users and admins. What’s a DDE attack? For a while now, attackers have been ditching malicious...

Microsoft Issues Advisory for Mitigating DDE Attacks
2017-11-09 17:41

A security advisory published by Microsoft on Wednesday provides information on how users can protect themselves against recent attacks abusing the Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE) protocol. read more

Microsoft Provides Guidance on Mitigating DDE Attacks
2017-11-09 14:15

Microsoft published guidance for Windows admins on how to safely disable Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE) fields in Office that are being used to spread malware in email-based attacks.

Russian 'Fancy Bear' Hackers Using (Unpatched) Microsoft Office DDE Exploit
2017-11-09 01:07

Cybercriminals, including state-sponsored hackers, have started actively exploiting a newly discovered Microsoft Office vulnerability that Microsoft does not consider as a security issue and has...

Microsoft Publishes Standards for "Highly Secure" Windows 10 Devices
2017-11-07 16:17

Microsoft this week published information on the standards a Windows 10 device is required to meet to be considered highly secure. read more

Qakbot, Emotet Increasingly Targeting Business Users: Microsoft
2017-11-06 18:00

The Quackbot and Emotet information stealing Trojans have been showing renewed activity over the past several months and are increasingly targeting enterprises, small and medium businesses, and...

Microsoft Engineer Installs Google Chrome Mid-Presentation After Edge Kept Crashing
2017-11-01 01:44

Ever since the launch of Windows 10, Microsoft has been heavily pushing its Edge browser, claiming it to be the best web browser over its competitors like Mozilla Firefox, Opera and Google Chrome...

Microsoft Open Sources Website Scanning Tool 'Sonar'
2017-10-26 15:21

Microsoft announced this week the availability of Sonar, an open source linting and website scanning tool designed to help developers identify and fix performance and security issues. read more