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Credit to Author: Sushmita Kalashikar| Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2020 05:37:49 +0000
14 Jan 2020 marked a huge day for Windows, as Microsoft ended support for Windows 7, the operating system that had been touching lives for nearly 11 years. Introduced almost a decade back, Windows 7 was designed basically to fix the failures that came with Windows Vista. The popularity of…
Read MoreCredit to Author: Sushmita Kalashikar| Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2020 05:37:49 +0000
14 Jan 2020 marked a huge day for Windows, as Microsoft ended support for Windows 7, the operating system that had been touching lives for nearly 11 years. Introduced almost a decade back, Windows 7 was designed basically to fix the failures that came with Windows Vista. The popularity of…
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Credit to Author: Sophos Italia| Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2019 16:01:52 +0000
Alcuni hacker russi avrebbero sfruttato due vulnerabilità durante i loro attacchi<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/5fzmmHOt0_g” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>
Read MoreCredit to Author: Ghanshyam More| Date: Wed, 03 Jul 2019 07:18:00 +0000
Ransomware authors keep experimenting with the development of payload in various dimensions. In the timeline of ransomware implementations, we have seen its evolution from a simple screen locker to multi-component model for file encryption, from novice approach to a sophisticated one. The Ransomware as a Tool has evolved in wild…
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Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 04 Jun 2019 00:16:11 +0000
For almost the past month, key computer systems serving the government of Baltimore, Md. have been held hostage by a ransomware strain known as “Robbinhood.” Media publications have cited sources saying the Robbinhood version that hit Baltimore city computers was powered by “Eternal Blue,” a hacking tool developed by the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) and leaked online in 2017. But new analysis suggests that while Eternal Blue could have been used to spread the infection, the Robbinhood malware itself contains no traces of it.
Read MoreCredit to Author: Sushmita Kalashikar| Date: Wed, 22 May 2019 06:45:53 +0000
As part of the Windows 10 Updates, Microsoft has now come up with a new update for Windows 10 PCs. It’s called Windows 10 19H1 (Windows 10 May 2019 Update). This post lists down some of the highlights of this particular update and Quick Heal’s compatibility with the OS. Highlights…
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Credit to Author: Naked Security| Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2019 15:56:07 +0000
La versión de Windows para Internet de las Cosas (IoT) es vulnerable a un exploit que podría permitir que un atacante tomara el control completo del sistema, según una presentación dada por una empresa de seguridad este fin de semana. En el WOPR Summit en New Jersey, Dor Azouri, un experto en seguridad de SafeBreach, […]<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/iGtiCM6qcE0″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>
Read MoreCredit to Author: Sameer Patil| Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2018 13:30:14 +0000
The recent zero-day vulnerability CVE-2018-8440 in Windows Task Scheduler enables attackers to perform a privilege elevation on targeted machines. Microsoft has released a security advisory CVE-2018-8440 on September 11, 2018 to address this issue. According to Microsoft, successful exploitation of this vulnerability could run arbitrary code in the security context…
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