Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook discuss the news of the week, including the back and forth around whether or not TeamViewer was hacked, the fallout around the years-old MySpace and Tumblr breaches, and a 90K Windows zero day.
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Hackers Selling Unpatched Microsoft Windows Zero-Day Exploit for $90,000
How much a Windows zero-day exploit that affects all versions of Windows operating system costs on the black market?
It’s $95,000, at least, for the one recently spotted by security researchers.
Researchers from Trustwave’s SpiderLabs team have uncovered a zero-day exploit on Russian underground malware forum exploit.in, affecting all versions of Microsoft Windows OS from Windows 2000 all
Microsoft removes its controversial Windows 10 Wi-Fi Sense Password Sharing Feature
Microsoft has finally decided to remove one of its controversial features Wi-Fi Sense network sharing feature from Windows 10 that shares your WiFi password with your Facebook, Skype and Outlook friends and enabled by default.
With the launch of Windows 10 last year, Microsoft introduced Wi-Fi Sense network sharing feature aimed at making it easy to share your password-protected WiFi network
Threatpost News Wrap, May 13, 2016
Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook discuss the news of the week, including zero day vulnerabilities–both in Adobe Flash and Windows, a nasty vulnerability in SAP business applications, Mozilla asking FBI to disclose a Tor exploit, and more.
Microsoft Patches JScript, VBScript Flaw Under Attack
Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday security bulletins include a patch for a JScript and VBScript scripting engine vulnerability being publicly exploited.
Microsoft SHA-1 Deprecation Final Countdown Begins
Microsoft said that with the release of the Windows 10 Anniversary Update this summer, its IE and Edge browsers would no longer display the lock icon for websites using SHA-1 signed certificates.
Microsoft to Store Data on DNA — 1,000,000,000 TB in Just a Gram
In Brief
Do you know — 1 Gram of DNA Can Store 1,000,000,000 Terabyte of Data for 1000+ Years.
Microsoft has purchased 10 Million strands of synthetic DNA, called Oligonucleotides a.k.a. DNA molecules, from biology startup Twist and collaborated with researchers from University of Washington to explore the idea of using synthetic DNA to store huge amount of data.
Microsoft is planning to
PLATINUM Hackers Hijack Windows Hotpatching to Stay Hidden
In Brief
The Microsoft’s Windows Defender Advanced Threat Hunting team detected that a cyber espionage group of hackers, known as PLATINUM, has found a way to turn the Windows’s Hotpatching technique (a way of updating the operating system without requiring a restart) to hide its malware from Antivirus products.
PLATINUM group has been active since 2009 and launching large-scale attacks
Platinum APT Group Abuses Windows Hotpatching
Microsoft disclosed details on the Platinum APT group and its arsenal of backdoors, keyloggers and its abuse of Windows hotpatching to load malicious code on compromised computers.
Never trust QR Codes – they just might betray you
Have you thought about how often you get in touch with a QR Code? While not many people know them by their official name, the Quick Response Code (short: QR Code) is a standard in our world and we can find this matrix on each bottle, newspaper, wall … well, basically everywhere.
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