Security News

Microsoft Patches Windows Flaws Exploited in Attacks (Security Week)
2017-06-13 19:00

Microsoft has released patches for more than 90 vulnerabilities on Tuesday, including two critical remote code execution flaws that have been exploited in attacks and several weaknesses whose...

Windows 10 Mitigations Make Future EternalBlue Attacks Difficult (Threatpost)
2017-06-07 19:25

Now that researchers have built a port of EternalBlue to Windows 10, they've probably only now caught up to what the NSA has had for a long while.

Kaspersky Accuses Microsoft of Unfairly Disabling its Antivirus in Windows 10 (The Hackers News)
2017-06-07 00:54

Russian antivirus vendor Kaspersky Lab is so upset with US software giant Microsoft that the security firm has filed more antitrust complaints against the company. The antivirus firm initially...

NSA’s EternalBlue Exploit Ported to Windows 10 (Threatpost)
2017-06-06 15:15

Researchers have ported the EternalBlue exploit to Windows 10, meaning that any unpatched version of Windows can be affected by the NSA attack.

WikiLeaks Dumps CIA Patient Zero Windows Implant (Threatpost)
2017-06-02 13:00

Pandemic is a Windows implant built by the CIA that turns file servers into Patient Zero on a local network, infecting machines requesting files with Trojanized replacements.

CIA Implants This Windows Hacking Tool to Silently Hack Computers Over Network (The Hackers News)
2017-06-02 01:06

WikiLeaks has published a new batch of the ongoing Vault 7 leak, this time detailing an alleged CIA project that allowed the agency to turn Windows file servers into covert attack machines that...

What's got a vast attack surface and runs on Linux? Windows Defender, of course (The Register)
2017-05-30 00:18

Penguinistas, rejoice: Tavis Ormandy lets you fuzz Windows Google Project Zero's Windows bug-hunter and fuzz-boffin Tavis Ormandy has given the world an insight into how he works so fast: he works...