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Short Bytes: Google told Microsoft about a critical vulnerability in the Windows kernel which can be used to escape security sandbox. After waiting for around 10 days, Google finally told people about the existence of the previously unknown vulnerability. Microsoft is yet to release a fix for the same. Google has disclosed an active vulnerability […]
Security Researchers Discover AtomBombing — An Injection Code that Infects Multiple Processes in Windows leading to malware installation. Ensilo’s security researchers have identified a unique method that allows injection of malicious code into multiple processes without getting identified by any endpoint security system or antivirus software. This method has been labeled as AtomBombing It has […]
Short Bytes: Microsoft used the CNTK toolkit to create a system which can understand words in a conversation just like humans. In a recent update, the toolkit has been renamed as Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit. The updated toolkit can now be used as a library with C++ and Python APIs along with improved support for GPUs based […]
Beware of not so old yet widespread Microsoft Security Essentials Scam that tells users to call a support number that instructs users to download malware on their PC. Microsoft users have been the target of a malware that tricks users into downloading Microsoft’s Security Essentials. Once it is installed, the Hicurdismos malware displays a fake blue […]
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 Office (CVE-2016-7193). Microsoft says that attackers exploited all vulnerabilities in the wild. CVE-2016-3298 CVE-2016-3298 is an information disclosure bug discovered in Internet Explorer by Proofpoint, who […]
By now you may already know that Yahoo had its 3 billion users hacked back in 2013 and how it worked as a US government tool by allowing the National Security Agency (NSA) to scan the email accounts of millions of Yahoo users worldwide. You may also know that Yahoo suffered a massive data breach in […]
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 technology that enables the delegated administration for carry on task with PowerShell. With JEA in place, it is possible to properly configure a role for administrators giving […]
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 run on Azure. Credit: Microsoft That service, codenamed “Project Springfield” — developed internally by Microsoft Research in the mid 2000s — was designed as a white-box […]
Short Bytes: Microsoft is a leading tech giant with a history of bad blood with open source, but recently they’ve been making strides in salvaging a relationship with the communities they once swore to tear apart. Its popular open source projects include the likes of Visual Studio Code, ChakraCore, TypeScript, and more. Microsoft, once known for […]
Short Bytes: Microsoft calls TypeScript the “JavaScript that scales”. This open-source superset of JavaScript was launched in 2012. Now, Microsoft has released TypeScript 2.0 with a focus on increasing the support for JS libraries, tools, and major editors. This release also solves the issue of ‘notorious’ null values. TypeScript is a typed superset of widely […]
Short Bytes: At its GitHub Universe conference, GitHub released some interesting data in a report. The data shows that Microsoft has the most open source contributors on GitHub, followed by the likes of Facebook, Docker, Angular, and Google. For those wondering how it happened, over the course of past couple of years, Redmond has been open sourcing tons […]
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 of thousand emails containing .pub attachments posing as orders and invoices for products. The email senders impersonate employees from small and medium-sized businesses from the UK and […]
Short Bytes: Microsoft has open sourced some major components of its Bing search engine. These parts include a “baby search engine” named BitFunnel, a tool for preparing text to be used in BitFunnel, and a just-in-time C compiler. While these projects are currently in the nascent state, we can expect them to benefit Bing’s development (and developers outside […]
Microsoft keeps on finding new ways and methods to make users life easier and simple. Microsoft OneNote an awesome tool that can be used in many different ways. Here we gonna show you on, how to solve math equations using Microsoft OneNote. Simple .gif image that shows how to solve math equation on Microsoft OneNote. […]
Short Bytes: Mozilla along with Apple, Lithium, and Twilio has filed an amicus brief to support Redmond in the “Microsoft Crop v United States Department of Justice et al” lawsuit. Microsoft says that the gagging orders issued by the courts are violating the Fourth Amendment. Another tech name has come up in support of Microsoft which has been […]
After messing around with users’ webcams the Microsoft’s Windows10 Anniversary Update is now causing crash whenever an Amazon Kindle is connected through USB. Microsoft has released its Windows 10 anniversary update recently and received criticism from all fronts especially when it was revealed that the updated caused webcam malfunction worldwide. Now, the anniversary update is creating more issues for users […]
Short Bytes: Microsoft has open sourced the code of its command line shell and scripting language PowerShell, bringing this automation framework to Linux and OS X. By downloading the appropriate package from PowerShell’s GitHub page and running a couple of commands, you can easily install the application on Ubuntu, CentOS, and OS X. Last week, for the […]
Windows 10 Anniversary update basically stopped users from turning on their webcams — But there is a quick solution until new updates arrive in September! This August, Microsoft released the Windows 10 anniversary update fully loaded with new features and stuff. However, what was not so cool about this new update is the way it […]
Keys to BYPASS UEFI secure boot Microsoft accidentally leaked the Secret keys to BYPASS UEFI secure boot that allow hackers to unlock devices protected by UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) Secure Boot feature. Secure Boot is a security feature that protects your device from certain types of malware, such as a rootkit, which can hijack your […]
Short Bytes: Two researchers reported that Microsoft accidently compromised the golden keys to its UEFI Secure boot feature. The golden keys allow the developer to bypass the Window boot manager check and install a non-Microsoft OS on the machine. Microsft has released two patches to rectify the mistakes since then. It’s almost a week since […]
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 protect users against attacks. However, according to security firm Bromium, many risks remain.In a video interview with eWEEK ahead of a session on Aug. 4 at […]