Pierluigi Paganini
July 20, 2018
Microsoft helped the US Government is protecting at least three 2018 midterm election candidates from attacks of Russian cyberspies. Microsoft revealed that Russian cyberspies attempted to hack at least three 2018 midterm election candidates and it has helped the US government to repeal their attacks. A Microsoft executive speaking at the Aspen Security Forum revealed the hacking attempts against […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 03, 2018
Microsoft published technical details of 2 zero-days that have been recently discovered after someone uploaded a weaponized PDF file to VirusTotal. Security researchers from Microsoft have published technical details of two zero-day vulnerabilities that have been recently discovered after someone uploaded a weaponized PDF file to VirusTotal. The two issues were addressed by Microsoft with […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 13, 2018
Microsoft issued Patch Tuesday updates for June 2018 that address a total of 50 vulnerabilities, 11 of which are critical remote code execution flaws. Microsoft issued Patch Tuesday updates for June 2018 that address a total of 50 flaws, 11 critical remote code execution vulnerabilities and 39 issues rated as important. The tech giant also issued some mitigations […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 04, 2018
Microsoft has reportedly acquired the popular code repository hosting service GitHub, but at the time of writing there is no news about how much Microsoft paid for the platform. Microsoft has reportedly acquired the popular code repository hosting service GitHub. GitHub was last valued at $2 billion in 2015, but at the time of writing […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 31, 2018
Dmitri Kaslov, a security researcher at Telspace Systems, discovered a vulnerability in the JScript component of the Windows operating system that can be exploited by an attacker to execute malicious code on a target computer. Kaslov disclosed the zero-day flaw through the Trend Micro Zero-Day Initiative (ZDI) back in January, then ZDI experts reported it […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 27, 2018
Microsoft has released a new batch of software and microcode updates to address the Spectre flaw (Variant 2). The IT giant has rolled out a new batch of software and microcode security updates to address the Spectre flaw (Variant 2). The Spectre Variant 2, aka CVE-2017-5715, is a branch target injection vulnerability, while the Meltdown and Variant 1 […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 11, 2018
AMD released patches for Spectre Variant 2 attack that includes both microcode and operating system updates. AMD and Microsoft worked together to issue the updates on Tuesday. AMD and Microsoft released the microcode and security updates for Spectre vulnerabilities. The Meltdown and Spectre attacks could be exploited by attackers to bypass memory isolation mechanisms and access target sensitive […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 04, 2018
On April 3, Microsoft Out-Of-Band Security Update to address the CVE-2018-0986 vulnerability affecting the Microsoft Malware Protection Engine (MMPE). Microsoft Malware Protection Engine is the core component for malware detection and cleaning of several Microsoft anti-malware software. It is currently implemented in Windows Defender, Microsoft Security Essentials, Microsoft Endpoint Protection, Windows Intune Endpoint Protection, and Microsoft Forefront Endpoint […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 09, 2018
Security experts devised a stealth attack technique dubbed CIGslip that could be exploited by attackers to bypass Microsoft Code Integrity Guard (CIG) Security researchers at Morphisec discovered a discovered stealth attack technique dubbed CIGslip that could be exploited by attackers to bypass Microsoft Code Integrity Guard (CIG) and inject malicious libraries into protected processes. “Morphisec researchers Michael […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 19, 2018
Google Project Zero disclosed details of an unpatched flaw in the Edge browser because Microsoft failed to address it within a 90-day deadline. White hackers at the Google Project Zero have disclosed details of an unpatched vulnerability in the Edge browser because Microsoft failed to address it within a 90-day deadline according to the Google’s […]
