Microsoft

Simda botnet taken down in global operation

April 13, 2015

The Simda botnet, believed to have infected more than 770,000 computers worldwide, has been targeted in a global operation. In a series of simultaneous actions around the …

US tech giants urge Congress to curb mass digital surveillance

March 27, 2015

As the date of the expiry of Section 215 of the USA PATRIOT Act draws near, a wide range of tech companies, privacy advocates, and trade associations have asked the US …

Macro-based malware continues to gain traction

March 25, 2015

After having “rediscovered” the usefulness of MS Office macros, malware peddlers have been ramping up email spam runs delivering documents that request users to …

Windows 10 will let you log in with your face and fingerprint

March 19, 2015

Windows 10 will be out this summer, available in 111 languages and in 190 countries around the world. In an effort to boost their (legal) numbers in China, Microsoft will …

Microsoft releases EMET 5.2

March 16, 2015

Microsoft has released version 5.2 of its Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET), a free utility that can detect and block exploitation techniques that are commonly …

Microsoft patches flaw exploited by Stuxnet – again

March 11, 2015

Among the vulnerabilities patched by Microsoft in this month’s Patch Tuesday is one that was supposedly patched back in 2010. The Windows Shell Shortcut Icon Loading …

Microsoft patches Windows, IE, Office, SharePoint

March 11, 2015

This month Microsoft has released 14 new bulletins, 5 of which are rated as Critical, 9 as Important. As a dÃ©jà vu from last month, a critical remote code execution …

Windows vulnerable to FREAK attacks after all

March 6, 2015

Microsoft has released a security advisory on Thursday, confirming that all supported releases of Microsoft Windows are vulnerable to the recently documented FREAK (Factoring …

Researchers create automated signature compiler for exploit detection

February 25, 2015

A trio of researchers from Microsoft and University of Erlangen-Nuremberg have created Kizzle, a compiler for generating signatures for detecting exploit kits delivering …

Windows 10 will offer password-free authentication

February 18, 2015

The upcoming Windows 10 will offer more authentication options instead of just passwords, Dustin Ingalls, Group Program Manager for Windows Security & Identity, has …

Attackers can bypass Windows’ protections by changing a single bit

February 12, 2015

Among the many vulnerabilities that Microsoft patched on Tuesday is one that can be exploited to bypass all Windows security measures by, curiously enough, modifying a single …

Microsoft fixes critical remotely exploitable Windows root-level design bug

February 10, 2015

In this month’s Patch Tuesday, Microsoft has released nine security bulletins to address 56 unique vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office, Internet …