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Microsoft's May 2024 Patch Tuesday updates have addressed critical vulnerabilities in .NET 6.0.31 (KB5039843) and .NET 7.0.20 (KB5039844), among other products. These updates are crucial for enhancing the security and stability of systems running these frameworks. .NET 6.0.31 (KB5039843) This...

Windows 7 and Windows 8 Support As of January 1 2024, Steam will officially stop supporting the Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 operating systems. After that date, the Steam Client will no longer run on those versions of Windows. In order to continue running Steam and any games or other...

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2021 and into 2022 have seen continued innovation in the attack landscape as cybercriminals refine tactics and tools to evade defenses. 2021 saw the highest year on record for zero-day exploits, increased firmware attacks and new tampering attacks targeting security agents. Microsoft and our...

Original release date: September 15, 2020 Summary This Alert uses the MITRE Adversarial Tactics, Techniques, and Common Knowledge (ATT&CK®) framework. See the ATT&CK for Enterprise framework for all referenced threat actor techniques. This product was written by the Cybersecurity and...

Original release date: September 14, 2020 Summary The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has consistently observed Chinese Ministry of State Security (MSS)-affiliated cyber threat actors using publicly available information sources and common, well-known tactics...

Original release date: December 5, 2019 Summary This Alert is the result of recent collaboration between the Department of the Treasury Financial Sector Cyber Information Group (CIG) and the Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) to identify and share...

Original release date: May 02, 2019 Summary The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is issuing this activity alert in response to recently disclosed exploits that target unsecure configurations of SAP components. [1] Technical Details A presentation at the April 2019...

The Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) recently announced our first BlueHat security conference in Shanghai which will take place on May 29-30, 2019. After 15 years of BlueHat events in Redmond, Washington and Israel, we are thrilled to expand to a new location. We work with many talented...

Intel has revealed another major security vulnerability in its CPUs, similar to the Meltdown/Spectre vulnerabilities revealed earlier this year. It is understood that at this time there are no current exploits and further information can be found on the released Link Removed . AMD chips are...

Today, Microsoft triaged a large release of exploits made publicly available by Shadow Brokers. Understandingly, customers have expressed concerns around the risk this disclosure potentially creates. Our engineers have investigated the disclosed exploits, and most of the exploits are already...

Ransomware is one of the latest malware threats that is attracting an increasing number of cyber-criminals who are looking to profit from it. In fact, in the last 12 months, the number of ransomware variants have more than doubled. Its premise is deceptively simple: infect users’ devices, and...

One year ago this week we challenged the security community to take an unconventional focus on defensive innovation. We called that challenge the Link Removed due to 404 Error, and tomorrow night, we will award the grand prize of $200,000 to one of the finalists - Jared DeMott, Ivan Fratric, or...

Microsoft said that a skew toward more exploits on Windows Vista can be attributed to the demise of support for the operating system's first service pack. read more Link Removed

Microsoft said that a skew toward more exploits on Windows Vista can be attributed to the demise of support for the operating system's first service pack. Link Removed

Computerworld - Microsoft said last week that a skew toward more exploits on Windows Vista can be attributed to the demise of support for the operating system's first service pack. Link Removed

When Microsoft issued version 12 of its Security Intelligence Report (.pdf) last month, its marketing machine had one message it wanted journalists to communicate to businesses: Conficker worm infections are a serious concern. The messaging about Conficker was extremely strong. Prior to a...

Resolves vulnerabilities in Windows Authenticode Verification that could allow remote code execution. An attacker who successfully exploited either vulnerability could take complete control of an affected system. Link Removed

Dillon Beresford and Brian Meixell were planning to perform a demonstration of how to attack critical infrastructure at the TakeDown Conference but cancelled after they were "asked very nicely" to refrain from providing that information. Beresford, a security analyst at NSS Labs, told Link...

Windows 7 is four to five times less vulnerable to malware infections than is Windows XP. Those are the findings of Microsoft's latest Security Intelligence Report ( PDF ), which detailed in depth the state of software vulnerabilities, exploits, security breaches, and malware in 2010. Overall...