Microsoft analysts have prepared a traditional Digital Defense report, in which they talked about the main events and trends in the field of cybersecurity and threat analysis over the past year (from July 2019 to June 2020). The company, for example, estimated that some ransomware attacks could be carried out in less than 45 minutes.… Continue reading Microsoft estimated that ransomware attacks take less than 45 minutes
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Windows XP source codes leaked
4chan has published a 42.9 GB torrent file, which contains the source codes for several operating systems, including Windows XP and Windows Server 2003. The person who published the file claims to have spent two months creating this torrent, and previously these files were distributed by data brokers only privately. The file also contains the… Continue reading Windows XP source codes leaked
Microsoft left open one of the internal servers of the search engine Bing
Ata Hakcil, cyber security specialist at WizCase, discovered that Microsoft employees mistakenly left one of the Bing backend servers open – it was available to anyone. The researcher writes that the server stored over 6.5 TB of logs containing 13,000,000,000 entries received from a search engine. The specialist tested his theory on this matter very… Continue reading Microsoft left open one of the internal servers of the search engine Bing
Microsoft developers will stop supporting classic Edge and IE 11
Microsoft said it would stop supporting classic Edge and IE 11. The company has published a schedule for the end of support for Internet Explorer 11 and Edge (a version based on its own engine). The whole process will be carried out in stages: from November 30, 2020, support for IE 11 will be discontinued… Continue reading Microsoft developers will stop supporting classic Edge and IE 11
On July “Patch Tuesday”, only Microsoft fixed 123 vulnerabilities
As part of the July update Tuesday, Microsoft engineers fixed 123 vulnerabilities in 13 different products. Any of them was under attack. In July did not reach the record of June Tuesday only a little, when were fixed129 vulnerabilities. The most serious vulnerability fixed this time is the CVE-2020-1350 problem, also known as SigRed, found… Continue reading On July “Patch Tuesday”, only Microsoft fixed 123 vulnerabilities
Linus Torvalds approved exclusion of the terms slave, blacklist and others from the Linux kernel code
More recently, we talked that the IT community has also returned to discussing inappropriate and offensive terminology under the influence of Black Lives Matter protests that swept across the United States (and not only). Linus Torvalds did not stand aside and approved excluding the terms slave, blacklist, and others from the Linux kernel code. Many… Continue reading Linus Torvalds approved exclusion of the terms slave, blacklist and others from the Linux kernel code
Hackers force users to solve CAPTCHA
Microsoft analysts have discovered a malicious campaign, in which hackers force users to solve CAPTCHA before they gain access to malicious content in an Excel document. This file contains macros that install on the victims’ machines GraceWire Trojan, which steals confidential information (for example, passwords). Responsibility for this campaign is put on the hacking group… Continue reading Hackers force users to solve CAPTCHA
On June “Patch Tuesday” Microsoft fixed 129 vulnerabilities in its products
“Patch Tuesday” this month became the largest in the history of Microsoft: were fixed at once 129 vulnerabilities. March 2020 with 115 corrections is in second place, and 113 corrections in April 2020 arein a third place. 100 absolutely “ridiculous” Microsoft patches were presented in February “Patch Tuesday”, but among them was the sensational 0-day… Continue reading On June “Patch Tuesday” Microsoft fixed 129 vulnerabilities in its products
Conspiracy theorists accused Bill Gates in creating coronavirus
Microsoft founder Bill Gates fell victim of fake theories that he was allegedly involved in the creation of the coronavirus COVID-19. In fact, conspiracy theorists accused Bill Gates in creation of a coronavirus and intention to achieve material benefits from the pandemic. At TED conference in 2015, Bill Gates argued that the greatest threat to… Continue reading Conspiracy theorists accused Bill Gates in creating coronavirus
Microsoft bought the domain Corp.com, so criminals would not do it
The well-known IS journalist Brian Krebs drew attention to an interesting fact: this week Microsoft bought the domain Corp.com, so that criminals would not do it. The sum of transaction is not disclosed. Krebs first turned his attention to this domain when a man named Mike O’Connor, who owned it for 26 years, put it… Continue reading Microsoft bought the domain Corp.com, so criminals would not do it