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Microsoft announces bug bounties for Spartan, Azure

April 23, 2015

As the official launch of Windows 10 approaches, Microsoft has launched a new bug bounty related to its Technical Preview version, and is asking bug hunters to analyze its new …

Attackers actively downing Microsoft’s IIS web servers

April 17, 2015

Attackers are actively exploiting a DoS vulnerability (CVE-2015-1635) affecting Microsoft’s Internet Information Services (IIS) extensible web server, SANS ISC CTO …

Microsoft releases 11 security bulletins

April 15, 2015

Administrators and security teams are in for a busy day tackling 11 Microsoft security bulletins, Adobe updates and Oracle has pre-announced that their quarterly update …

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 …