0-days affect IE, Edge, Office, and Windows’ GDI component. aaThese four zero-days affect Microsoft products such as Internet Explorer (CVE-2016-3298), Edge’s scripting engine (CVE-2016-7189), the Windows Graphics Component (CVE-2016-3393), and OfficeRead More →
The security researcher Matt Weeks discovered a way to abuse the Microsoft Just Enough Administration (JEA) technology to escalate user profiles. Just Enough Administration aka JEA is a Microsoft technologyRead More →
Microsoft is planning to make its internally-used ‘white-box fuzzing’ bug-detection service available to external customers and partners. Microsoft is looking for testers for a new bug-detection service that will runRead More →
Short Bytes: At its Ignite conference, Microsoft announced Windows Defender Application Guard for its Edge Browser. This technology will run Edge in a lightweight virtual machine, isolating it from theRead More →
A targeted spam wave is infecting Windows computers with a backdoor capable of stealing sensitive corporate information from medium and small-sized businesses. Bitdefender antispam researchers have identified a couple ofRead More →
LAS VEGAS–Microsoft’s Windows 10 includes many innovative security features that are intended to help minimize risk and improve user experience. One such feature is Credential Guard, which aims to protectRead More →
Researchers claim they can stop malware before it executes. Black Hat EndGame vulnerability researchers Cody Pierce, Matt Spisak, and Kenneth Fitch have created a defence framework to protect against deeper modernRead More →
Attack from the ’90s resurfaces more deadly than before. A flaw in how Windows handles old authentication procedures for shared network resources can leak a user’s Microsoft account username and password,Read More →
Office exploit kits updates drop support for CVE-2012-0158. Two newer vulnerabilities targeting the Microsoft Office suite have become very popular in recent months, as Office exploit kit makers have updated theirRead More →
The U.S. government’s reach got a little bit shorter Thursday when the Second Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a lower court decision and ruled that the U.S. government can’t forceRead More →
