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  • The case against running Windows XP is more subtle than we think it is

    Greater Manchester Police has admitted to the BBC that some 1,500 of its PCs (20% of the total) are still running Windows XP , an operating system that was considered end-of-life more than three years ago. This makes the organization an exception. Not because its systems are still running Windows XP , but because it…

  • The case against running Windows XP is more subtle than we think it is

    Greater Manchester Police has admitted to the BBC that some 1,500 of its PCs (20% of the total) are still running Windows XP , an operating system that was considered end-of-life more than three years ago. This makes the organization an exception. Not because its systems are still running Windows XP , but because it…

  • File-stealing vulnerability found in Firefox PDF reader

    Both Windows and Linux users actively being targeted. If, like me, you are suffering from vulnerability fatigue after so many flaws and weaknesses having been disclosed in Las Vegas this week, you may be tempted to ignore the advisory Mozilla released yesterday. However, I strongly advise you don’t. The company says it has been made…

  • Out-of-band patch released for all Windows versions

    Kerberos bug means one set of credentials suffices to rule them all. If you are a Windows systems administrator, the content of this blog post will (hopefully) not come as a surprise. If it does, you should finish reading it quickly and make some time to apply the out-of-band patch MS14-068 to all Windows systems…

  • Windows zero-day used in targeted attacks

    Vulnerability used to download BlackEnergy trojan – as discussed during VB2014. Today is going to be a busy day for system administrators: they were already on high alert following a rumoured vulnerability in SSLv3, and now they also know that a zero-day vulnerability has been discovered that affects all currently supported versions of Windows .…

  • Windows Error Reporting used to discover new attacks

    No excuse for sending error reports in cleartext. All happy programs are the same. But each unhappy program crashes in its own way. In a report published yesterday, security firm Websense has shown how Windows Error Reporting can be used to detect hitherto unknown attacks. Windows Error Reporting was introduced by Microsoft with Windows XP…

  • VirusTotal support integrated into new version of Process Explorer

    Sysadmins can check hashes of processes against file-checking service database. Microsoft and Google are known for their fierce competition, but when it comes to security, the tech giants are eager to put that aside. Hence as of this week, Google ‘s VirusTotal has been integrated into Microsoft ‘s Process Explorer . The planned integration was…

  • Phone support scams: an old scam with some new tricks

    Files in Prefetch directory supposedly show malware infections. Telephone support scams have been going on for quite a long time, and have received a fair amount of publicity, which often makes me wonder if there are still people who fall for them. A call I received last week proved that the callers haven’t given up.…

  • Windows Help Files used in targeted attacks

    Files with code-executing properties attached to emails. Researchers at Symantec have discovered Windows Help Files being used in targeted attacks. Such help files, which use the .hlp extension, are used by Windows Help , a program that allows users to find help for programs running on the popular operating system. Because the files can call…

  • Facebook scam serving malware

    Attack targeting Windows and Mac users in US and UK. A Facebook scam that is doing the rounds at the moment – claiming to contain a ‘freaky video’ related to the ongoing case concerning former IMF-boss Dominique Strauss-Kahn – is linking to malware. Like many scams, it spreads via Facebook ‘s ‘like’ feature and is…