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Pierluigi Paganini November 19, 2014
Microsoft issued a critical Out-of-Band patch for Kerberos flaw

Microsoft on Tuesday released a rare out-of-band patch for a critical vulnerability in Kerberos that could allow elevation of privilege. Microsoft has just released an “out-of-band” security updates to patch a critical vulnerability in all supported versions of its Windows Server software, the flaw resides in Kerberos (Kerberos Checksum Vulnerability – CVE-2014-6324) and could allow elevation of Privilege […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 12, 2014
MS14-066 – A critical bug potentially affects all Windows versions. Patch it!

MS14-066 – A critical vulnerability affects all versions of Microsoft Windows systems, its exploitation could have catastrophic consequences. Microsoft has revealed the existence of a critical vulnerability in all versions of Windows operating systems, the flaw is particularly dangerous for users that servers that expose website. Microsoft issued a security advisory (Microsoft Security Bulletin MS14-066) on the vulnerability […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 22, 2014
New Zero-day in Microsoft OLE being exploited in targeted attacks

Security experts at Google and McAfee have discovered a new Zero-day vulnerability in Microsoft OLE being exploited in targeted attacks. Early this week,  Microsoft issued the security advisory 3010060 to warn its customer of a new Zero-Day vulnerability that affects all supported versions of Windows OS except, Windows Server 2003. The OLE Packager is the component that is affected by the zero-day, […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 15, 2014
Microsoft Fixes 3 Zero-day and many other flaws being exploited in the Wild

Microsoft has released 8 security bulletins as part of October 2014 Patch Tuesday, it patches 3 Zero-day flaws actively being exploited in the wild. Microsoft has released eight security bulletins on Tuesday as part of October 2014 Patch Tuesday, they fix dozens of vulnerabilities including the widely discussed zero-day flaw exploited by the Russian group of […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 03, 2014
FBI identified hackers which stolen intellectual property of Xbox One

A group of hackers was identified by the FBI while trying to sale a mockup of the XBox One for $5,000. A group of men was accused of running a hacking campaign that lasted at least three years and which hit the gaming industry to steal intellectual properties. Dylan Wheeler, 19, of Perth said in an interview […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 19, 2014
Microsoft confirmed that a faulty patch is causing BlueScreen

Microsoft is investigating on potentially faulty Windows security update that is causing some systems to crash with bluescreen error. Last Friday, Microsoft urged its users to uninstall the latest security updates issued by the company because they are causing the unpleasant bluescreen, also know as  “Blue Screens of Death” or BSoD. Microsoft released its usual […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 17, 2014
MS Active Directory could allow an attacker to impersonate victims

Experts at Aorato have discovered a flaw in MS Active Directory that could allow an attacker to conduct a pass-the-hash attack to change a victim’s password. The Israel-based security firm Aorato has recently discovered a flaw in Microsoft’s Active Directory (AD) that could allow an attacker (via “pass-the-hash” attack) to change a victim’s password and access a […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 10, 2014
Google blocked unauthorized digital certificates issued by NIC India

Google Security experts have detected and blocked unauthorized digital certificates for a number of its domains issued by the NIC of India. Google announced to have blocked unauthorized digital certificates for different of its domains issued by the National Informatics Centre of India, which holds several intermediate CA certificates trusted by the Indian Controller of Certifying Authorities (India CCA). […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 01, 2014
Microsoft Seized No-IP Domains, Millions dynamic DNS users affected

Executing an order of a Nevada Court, Microsoft has seized domains belonging to the No-IP.com Dynamic DNS Service affecting the traffic of million users. Microsoft has executed a large-scale operation against a malware network thought to be responsible for more than 7.4 million infections of Windows machines worldwide. The operation conducted by Microsoft has brought down millions of […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 06, 2014
Microsoft issues the patch for the debated IE critical vulnerabilities

Microsoft has announced the official patch for the critical vulnerability discovered recently in the Internet Explorer. Microsoft has published the “Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification for June 2014” in which are released seven security Bulletins addressing different vulnerabilities in the company’s products. The notification includes two critical Remote Code Execution vulnerabilities affecting the products Microsoft Windows, Internet Explorer, MS […]