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European Cybercrime Centre warns about Windows XP security risks
The European Cybercrime Centre (EC3) at Europol warns about security risks related to the end of Windows XP support. After 8 April 2014, Windows will stop supporting its …
0-day Microsoft Word flaw exploited in targeted attacks
Microsoft has issued a security advisory warning of a remote code execution vulnerability that is being exploited in “limited, targeted attacks directed at Microsoft …
Microsoft accessed Hotmail account to uncover internal leaker
This week’s charging of a former Microsoft employee for stealing the company’s trade secrets could have passed almost unnoticed were it not for an important detail …
US tech firms knew about and assisted with PRISM data collection
In a testimony before the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, the NSA general council Rajesh De and his colleague stated on Wednesday that the tech companies that …
Record prizes for Pwn2Own and Pwnium contestants
The results of the first day of the traditional Pwn2Own hacking contest at the CanSecWest Conference currently taking place in Vancouver are in, and the losers are Adobe, …
Criminals rush to exploit IE 0-day before the announced fix
Last week Microsoft has announced that today’s Patch Tuesday will include a fix for the critical IE zero-day vulnerability that was found exploited in watering hole …
Upcoming Patch Tuesday looks small once again
Microsoft’s March Patch Tuesday is again shaping up to be on the lighter side of some months, continuing the 2014 trend of smaller Patch Tuesdays. We only see 2 issues …
Microsoft’s quest to make users drop Windows XP continues
As the date of the scheduled retirement of Windows XP – arguably one of Microsoft’s most popular products ever – draws near, the company continues its quest …
Microsoft testing EMET’s new protection mechanisms
Just as researchers made public their successful attempt of creating attack code for bypassing the protections of the latest version of Microsoft’s Enhanced Mitigation …
Microsoft EMET’s protections can be bypassed, researchers show
Microsoft’s Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET) is a good piece of software and helpful for protecting non-kernel Microsoft applications and third-party …
Microsoft issues Fix it for critical IE 0-day exploited in attacks
Microsoft has finally issued a security advisory addressing the IE zero-day that has been recently actively exploited in attacks in the wild, and has followed with a Fix it …
Two hacker groups used same IE 0-day exploit in recent attacks
The recently spotted watering hole attacks aimed at the visitors of the official website of the US Veterans of Foreign Wars and of a bogus website mimicking that of the French …
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