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Scareware and Phishing Scams Play on Windows 8 Launch
Windows 8 isn't yet a week old, but the scammers and phishing crews already are taking their swings at it, setting up new campaigns based on the shiny new operating system. Security researchers have...
View ArticleFirst Windows 8 and Windows RT Security Updates Due Next Week
Plenty is happening on the Microsoft patch management front. First, Adobe agreed to sync up its patch release cycles with Microsoft’s on the second Tuesday of every month, moving away from quarterly...
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Microsoft Update Includes Critical Security Update for IE 9, First Patches...
Microsoft released its monthly security updates today and put special urgency on a cumulative security update for Internet Explorer 9. Critical vulnerabilities were found in the way the browser handles...
View ArticleSkype Restores Password Resets, Repairs Flaw that Allows Account Hijacking
UPDATE - Skype engineers have repaired a newly reported vulnerability that would allow someone to abuse the platform’s password-reset mechanism to take over another account.read more
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Windows 8 Malware Using Google Docs to Target Brazilians
New malware targeting Windows 8 appears to be using Google Docs as a proxy server instead of directly connecting to a command and control (C&C) server. According to research done by Symantec and...
View ArticleFake Windows 8 Key Generators Found Tricking Users
Attackers continue to exploit the buzz behind the launch of Windows 8, Microsoft’s latest operating system. The latest attack attempts to trick users into using fake key generators that claim they'll...
View ArticleMalicious Browser Add-On Guides Victims to Phishing Sites
Phishers are using a typosquatted domain name designed to mimic the URL of a popular e-commerce destination in order to lure their victims to a malicious Website that prompts its visitors to download a...
View ArticleWorm Tries AutoRun, Then Social Engineering to Infect
Sophos and TrendMicro, and anumber of other security firms, are reporting a dramatic increase in the prevalence of a worm using AutoRun and social engineering to proliferate.read more
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Trusteer: More Chrome, 64-bit Windows Malware to Come in 2013
Tis the season for predictions and security firm Trusteer checks in today with a handful for the upcoming New Year. In a post on the company’s blog, CTO Amit Klein distills Trusteer’s top ideas into an...
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Microsoft Fixing 11 Vulnerabilities for December Patch Tuesday
Microsoft announced today that it plans on shipping seven bulletins, five critical, two important, for the December edition of its monthly patch Tuesday security bulletin release cycle.The year's last...
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Microsoft Patches Critical Remote Flaws in Word, IE and Windows
A rare critical Microsoft Word vulnerability was patched today by Microsoft, one of seven security updates pushed out repairing 11 flaws in its December security update.The Word vulnerability earned a...
View ArticleMicrosoft Responds to IE Zero Day Used in CFR Watering Hole Attack
UPDATE - Microsoft responded this weekend with temporary mitigations and workarounds for a zero-day vulnerability in Internet Explorer exploited in an attack on the Council on Foreign Relations...
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Patch for IE Zero Day Won't Be Among Microsoft Security Updates Next Week
Microsoft plans to release a pair of critical bulletins on Tuesday for its first round of 2013 monthly security updates, but still has no announcement regarding a patch for the zero day vulnerability...
View ArticleIE Zero-Day Watering Hole Attack Expands to Handful of Political Sites
The scope of watering hole attacks utilizing a previously unreported vulnerability in Internet Explorer has widened to as many as four new sites, all of them with politically charged leanings.read more
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Microsoft Releases Two Critical Patches; Promises Update for IE Watering Hole...
It’s Microsoft Patch Tuesday, and while there were two critical security updates released today, the concern among IT managers is likely over the patch that isn’t there. Microsoft’s monthly security...
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Out-of-Band IE Patch Released as More Sites Attacked
Internet Explorer users, exposed to a zero-day vulnerability in the browser and a faulty temporary Fix It from Microsoft, finally got some relief today when the company, as promised, released an...
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Microsoft Announces Five Critical February Patch Tuesday Updates Coming Next...
Microsoft announced yesterday it will ship 12 bulletins addressing 57 vulnerabilities in the February 2013 Patch Tuesday release of security updates. Five of the updates, which Microsoft will release...
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Microsoft Report Examines Socio-Economic Relationships to Malware Infections
Tired of all those malware and vulnerability reports that count how many of each have been reported to security companies? Well, Microsoft has taken a different tack in its latest Security Intelligence...
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Microsoft Patches Critical IE Vulnerabilities
Internet Explorer continues to dominate Microsoft’s 2013 security updates. Among the 12 bulletins and 57 vulnerabilities patched in today’s release was a cumulative update for the maligned browser and...
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Microsoft Azure Cloud Storage Suffers Major Outage Over Expired SSL Certificate
Various news outlets reported late Friday that Microsoft's public cloud storage service suffered a global outage due to a lapsed security certificate.Beginning around 4 p.m. EST, developers and other...
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Microsoft to Ship 7 Bulletins in March Patch Tuesday Release
Software giant Microsoft plans to ship seven bulletins in the March 2013 edition of Patch Tuesday. Four of the bulletins are receiving high-severity, critical ratings.Three of the four critically rated...
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Critical IE, Windows Kernel Flaws Patched
For the second month in a row, Microsoft has released a cumulative update for Internet Explorer, patching a number of critical remote code execution vulnerabilities in the browser, including one...
View ArticleRamnit Malware Back and Better at Avoiding Detection
The Ramnit malware family has been given a facelift with new anti-detection capabilities, a troubleshooting module, as well as enhanced encryption and malicious payloads.read more
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Microsoft Transparency Report Shows Company Supplied User Content in 2.2% of...
Microsoft received more than 11,000 requests for user information or content data from law enforcement agencies in the United States last year and supplied some user content in more than 1,500 of those...
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Transparency Reports Should Be Standard Practice
With less than three full months gone in 2013, Facebook, Apple and Microsoft all have admitted publicly to serious security breaches, something that would have seemed like an elaborate practical joke...
View ArticleHas Anyone Seen a Missing Scroll Bar? Phony Flash Update Redirects to Malware
Microsoft said it has received 70,000 reports this week of a new Trojan disguised as an Adobe Flash Player update that will change your browser’s home page and redirect a Web session to an attacker’s...
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Microsoft Expected to Patch Pwn2Own IE Vulnerabilities
Appropriately enough for the start of the baseball season, Microsoft is going to go 4-for-4 and release another set of critical Internet Explorer patches on Tuesday, the fourth consecutive month in...
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Pwn2Own IE Vulnerabilities Missing from Microsoft Patch Tuesday Updates
UPDATE - In an unexpected turn, Microsoft’s monthly Patch Tuesday security updates released today did not include patches for Internet Explorer vulnerabilities used during the Pwn2Own contest one month...
View ArticleMicrosoft Reportedly Adding Two-Factor Authentication to User Accounts
Microsoft reportedly will implement two-factor authentication on users’ accounts at some point down the line, according to reports this week.read more
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Microsoft: Uninstall Faulty Patch Tuesday Security Update
Microsoft announced last night that it has stopped pushing a security update originally released on Patch Tuesday because the fix is causing some PCs to blue screen. Microsoft recommends users...
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