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Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2019 09:28:00 -0700

Great way to wake up on Monday morning, especially if you own an ASUS machine.

Kaspersky just published a teaser for a more thorough explanation to come in two weeks at the Kaspersky Security Analysts Summit in Singapore. It’s quite an eye-opener.

Apparently somebody broke into the ASUS update servers, and swapped out a valid software/firmware update with one of their own. The bogus update looked like the genuine thing, with a valid certificate, and its size matched the original’s size. As a result, the bad update stayed on ASUS’s servers “for a long time.”

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ComputerWorld Independent

March 20, 2019 admin

How to audit Windows Task Scheduler to detect attacks

Learn how to prevent attackers from using Task Scheduler to hide and set up tasks to access Windows systems.

Kaspersky Security

March 14, 2019 admin

CVE-2019-0797: Zero-day exploits keep coming

Credit to Author: Pavel Shoshin| Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2019 13:35:39 +0000

Our proactive technologies detected yet another Windows exploit that was used in APT attacks.

Security Sophos

March 14, 2019 admin

What you need to know for Patch Tuesday, March 2019

Credit to Author: Andrew Brandt| Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2019 13:00:46 +0000

By SophosLabs Offensive Security Research Microsoft released their monthly security updates for March this past Tuesday. This month’s fixes address 64 vulnerabilities that affect Windows and a range of software that runs on Windows, mainly the Internet Explorer and Edge browsers. In addition, there was a patch released for one critical vulnerability in Adobe Flash. […]<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/Vlj59LNV68Y” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

ComputerWorld Independent

March 13, 2019 admin

March 2019 Windows and Office patches poke a few interesting places

Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2019 06:21:00 -0700

Patch Tuesday has come and gone, not with a bang but a whimper. As of this moment, early Wednesday morning, I don’t see any glaring problems with the 124 patches covering 64 individually identified security holes. But the day is yet young.

There are a few patches of note.

Two zero days

Microsoft says that two of this month’s security holes — CVE-2019-0797 and CVE-2019-0808 — are being actively exploited. The latter of these zero days is the one that was being used in conjunction with the Chrome exploit that caused such a kerfuffle last week, with Google urging Chrome browser users to update right away, or risk the slings of nation-state hackers. If you’ve already updated Chrome (which happens automatically for almost everybody), the immediate threat has been thwarted already.

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ComputerWorld Independent

March 5, 2019 admin

Microsoft to start selling Windows 7 add-on support April 1

Credit to Author: Gregg Keizer| Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2019 12:06:00 -0800

Microsoft plans to start selling its Windows 7 add-on support beginning April 1.

Labeled “Extended Security Updates” (ESU), the post-retirement support will give enterprise customers more time to purge their environments of Windows 7. From Windows 7’s Jan. 14, 2020 end of support, ESU will provide security fixes for uncovered or reported vulnerabilities in the OS.

Patches will be issued only for bugs rated “Critical” or “Important” by Microsoft, the top two rankings in a four-step scoring system.

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ComputerWorld Independent

March 1, 2019 admin

Microsoft Patch Alert: After a serene February, Microsoft plops KB 4023057 into the Update Catalog

Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2019 07:50:00 -0800

Microsoft continues to hold Windows 10 version 1809 close to the chest. While all of the other Win10 versions have had their usual twice-a-month cumulative updates, the latest version of the last version of Windows, 1809, still sits in the Windows Insider Release Preview Ring.

For most people, that’s excellent news. It seems that Microsoft is willing to hold off until they get the bugs fixed, at least in the 1809 releases. May I hear a “hallelujah” from the chorus?

Mystery update bulldozer KB 4023057 hits the Catalog

You’ve heard me talk about KB 4023057 many times, most recently in January. It’s a mysterious patch that Microsoft calls an “update reliability improvement” whose sole reason for existence, as best I can tell, is to blast away any blocks your machine may have to keep the next version of Windows (in this case, Win10 1809) from installing on your machine.

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February 25, 2019 admin

Microsoft opens top-tier Defender ATP security to Windows 7 PCs

Credit to Author: Gregg Keizer| Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2019 08:28:00 -0800

Microsoft’s Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) service is now available for PCs running Windows 7 and Windows 8.1.

The decision to add devices powered by those operating systems was first announced a year ago. At the time, Microsoft said ATP’s Endpoint Detection & Response (EDR) functionality would be available for the older OSes by summer 2018.

Windows Defender ATP is a service that detects ongoing attacks on corporate networks, then follows up to investigate the attack or breach and provides response recommendations and attack remediation. Software baked into Windows 10 detects attacks, while a central management console allows IT administrators to monitor the status of covered devices and react if necessary. Adding the EDR client software to Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 PCs gives enterprise IT the same visibility into those machines as it has had into Windows 10 systems.

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