Security News

Businesses unprepared for Windows 10 migration, fear vulnerability to cyber threats
2018-10-31 09:00

A new WinMagic study has found that organisations are largely unprepared for when support of older versions of Microsoft’s Windows OS will be withdrawn in January 2020. When questioned about their...

Windows 10 Bug Let UWP Apps Access All Files Without Users' Consent
2018-10-30 14:48

Microsoft silently patched a bug in its Windows 10 operating system with the October 2018 update (version 1809) that allowed Microsoft Store apps with extensive file system permission to access...

Windows Built-in Antivirus Gets Secure Sandbox Mode – Turn It ON
2018-10-29 15:03

Microsoft Windows built-in anti-malware tool, Windows Defender, has become the very first antivirus software to have the ability to run inside a sandbox environment. Sandboxing is a process that...

Microsoft Creates Sandbox for Windows Defender
2018-10-29 12:55

Microsoft announced on Friday that Windows Defender, the antivirus application shipped with the company’s operating systems, can now run in a sandbox, and the tech giant claims it’s the first...

Windows Defender can now run inside a sandbox
2018-10-29 12:25

Microsoft has made it possible for Windows Defender Antivirus to be run within a sandbox, a restrictive environment that separates the AV’s processes from those of the underlying Windows OS, thus...

Worrying Windows 10 wrecking-ball weapon weirdly wanders wildly on worldwide web
2018-10-24 20:11

Zero-day crash'n'pwn exploit for Microsoft's latest OS disclosed, no official patch available (yet) A skilled Microsoft bug hunter with a penchant for public disclosures via Twitter has openly...

Windows ‘Deletebug’ Zero-Day Allows Privilege Escalation, Destruction
2018-10-24 20:04

The unpatched flaw allows an attacker to delete any kind of file on a victim machine, including system data.

Exploit for New Windows Zero-Day Published on Twitter
2018-10-24 18:40

A new zero-day vulnerability in Windows was made public on Twitter by the same researcher who published an exploit for a bug in the Windows Task Scheduler at the end of August. read more

Another Windows 0-day flaw has been published on Twitter
2018-10-24 15:50

And on GitHub there's a proof-of-concept that'll render your system unbootable.

Hacker Discloses New Windows Zero-Day Exploit On Twitter
2018-10-24 09:03

A security researcher with Twitter alias SandboxEscaper—who two months ago publicly dropped a zero-day exploit for Microsoft Windows Task Scheduler—has yesterday released another proof-of-concept...