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Microsoft patches 50 vulnerabilities incl a Zero Day Issue
It was patch Tuesday yesterday and if you have not done so, you should grab that update alright as Microsoft addressed 50 vulnerabilities including a zero-day vulnerability.
The zero-day allowed an attacker with access to the system to elevate his privileges and Microsoft has classified its severity as ‘important’. Kaspersky Lab discovered the zero-day in August this year reports myce.
According to the antivirus vendor the vulnerability has been used in targeted attacks against less than a dozen targets in the Middle East. The vulnerability was reported on the 17th of August to Microsoft, which released a patch yesterday, the 9th of October. The attackers already had access to the system and used the vulnerability to gain privileges that they used to infect the system with persistent malware. The exploit that made use of the vulnerability, was of high quality and designed to reliable attack several versions of Windows.
Besides the zero-day, also two vulnerabilities were patched of which details were already disclosed. Both vulnerabilities weren’t actively exploited, according to Microsoft. One is a vulnerability in the Microsoft JET Database Engine and the other in the Windows kernel. Microsoft also fixed a vulnerability that has a CVE number from 2010. CVE numbers are unique numbers assigned to vulnerabilities after they are discovered. The vulnerability from 2010 allows remote code execution in certain applications built using Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC).
Other vulnerabilities were patched in Internet Explorer, Microsoft Edge, Microsoft Office, Windows, ChakraCore, .NET Core, PowerShell Core, SQL Server Management Studio, Microsoft Exchange server, Azure IoT Edge and Hub Device Client SDK for Azure IoT.
On most systems the patches will be automatically installed.
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#5595186 Posted on: 10/11/2018 11:35 AM
When Win10 started to install updates upon turning off the PC last night, I thought today I'd find all of my personal documents gone, but fortunately it wasn't that update.
Targeted Attacks => Not some small time "hacker" looking to build botnet... CIA?
Middle East - Probably someone nice, right?
I reckon most targeted attacks in the Middle East are by Israel. You know, by the actual experts in Israel, not those "experts" that find "vulnerabilities" in AMD CPUs and give AMD 24 hours to fix them before making them public with terrible headlines.
When Win10 started to install updates upon turning off the PC last night, I thought today I'd find all of my personal documents gone, but fortunately it wasn't that update.
Targeted Attacks => Not some small time "hacker" looking to build botnet... CIA?
Middle East - Probably someone nice, right?
I reckon most targeted attacks in the Middle East are by Israel. You know, by the actual experts in Israel, not those "experts" that find "vulnerabilities" in AMD CPUs and give AMD 24 hours to fix them before making them public with terrible headlines.
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#5595187 Posted on: 10/11/2018 11:37 AM
When Win10 started to install updates upon turning off the PC last night, I thought today I'd find all of my personal documents gone, but fortunately it wasn't that update.
I reckon most targeted attacks in the Middle East are by Israel. You know, by the actual experts in Israel, not those "experts" that find "vulnerabilities" in AMD CPUs and give AMD 24 hours to fix them before making them public with terrible headlines.
Don't leave out their Arab buddies. Despite all the rhetoric, they do buy all those "tools" from Israel
When Win10 started to install updates upon turning off the PC last night, I thought today I'd find all of my personal documents gone, but fortunately it wasn't that update.
I reckon most targeted attacks in the Middle East are by Israel. You know, by the actual experts in Israel, not those "experts" that find "vulnerabilities" in AMD CPUs and give AMD 24 hours to fix them before making them public with terrible headlines.
Don't leave out their Arab buddies. Despite all the rhetoric, they do buy all those "tools" from Israel
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#5595196 Posted on: 10/11/2018 12:09 PM
When Win10 started to install updates upon turning off the PC last night, I thought today I'd find all of my personal documents gone, but fortunately it wasn't that update.
I reckon most targeted attacks in the Middle East are by Israel. You know, by the actual experts in Israel, not those "experts" that find "vulnerabilities" in AMD CPUs and give AMD 24 hours to fix them before making them public with terrible headlines.
What I meant is, that it talked about sophisticated tool which was universal for multiple versions of Windows. That's not work of random guy in mom's basement. That's work of well funded and motivated party. Be it Israeli, US, ... matters little. But it means that threat they are focusing on is likely threat to their national security. (Or is perceived as such.)
And dozen of targets really look more like surgical approach. And likely bad guys are ones to celebrate. I do not think that any of those organizations capable to create and use surgical hack like this will target some random citizen or will use that vulnerability to get data from millions of computers. (That greatly increases chance for detection and fix. => Loss of investment, technological advantage, Strategic option.)
When Win10 started to install updates upon turning off the PC last night, I thought today I'd find all of my personal documents gone, but fortunately it wasn't that update.
I reckon most targeted attacks in the Middle East are by Israel. You know, by the actual experts in Israel, not those "experts" that find "vulnerabilities" in AMD CPUs and give AMD 24 hours to fix them before making them public with terrible headlines.
What I meant is, that it talked about sophisticated tool which was universal for multiple versions of Windows. That's not work of random guy in mom's basement. That's work of well funded and motivated party. Be it Israeli, US, ... matters little. But it means that threat they are focusing on is likely threat to their national security. (Or is perceived as such.)
And dozen of targets really look more like surgical approach. And likely bad guys are ones to celebrate. I do not think that any of those organizations capable to create and use surgical hack like this will target some random citizen or will use that vulnerability to get data from millions of computers. (That greatly increases chance for detection and fix. => Loss of investment, technological advantage, Strategic option.)
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#5595414 Posted on: 10/11/2018 09:44 PM
Remember the time when 3 Baraks sat at one table to "negotiate" - Barack Obama, Ehud Barak and Mubarak (president of Egypt). Judeoamerican-Arab everlasting conflict was designed to hold the rest of the world as a hostage. And this conflict is carefully maintained throughout a few decades now. And the authorities are trying to persuade us that this is just a coincidence, and whoever says different is an inventor of a "conspiracy theory"....
And anyone who thinks it's just a coincidence that windows os is invented (though the idea was stolen, copied) by a guy who is of such and such nationality, and that it's a pure coincidence that micro$oft is a servant of the secret forces of USA, is living in an illusion.
Don't leave out their Arab buddies. Despite all the rhetoric, they do buy all those "tools" from Israel :p
Remember the time when 3 Baraks sat at one table to "negotiate" - Barack Obama, Ehud Barak and Mubarak (president of Egypt). Judeoamerican-Arab everlasting conflict was designed to hold the rest of the world as a hostage. And this conflict is carefully maintained throughout a few decades now. And the authorities are trying to persuade us that this is just a coincidence, and whoever says different is an inventor of a "conspiracy theory"....
And anyone who thinks it's just a coincidence that windows os is invented (though the idea was stolen, copied) by a guy who is of such and such nationality, and that it's a pure coincidence that micro$oft is a servant of the secret forces of USA, is living in an illusion.
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Targeted Attacks => Not some small time "hacker" looking to build botnet... CIA?
Middle East - Probably someone nice, right?
It is nice that it is patched, I feel much more secure. And would feel twice as secure if I was doing something bad via my PC.