Tag Archives: Microsoft

British nuclear power station Haysham 1 suffered an ?unplanned outage?, one of two reactors had to be taken offline. EDF, who own the power station, have categorically denied any link to the Stuxnet worm. Suggestions that the sophisticated Stuxnet worm … Continue reading

The past week has seen the number of attacks on vulnerable XP machines rocket. Microsoft has warned customers to deploy counter measures until a patch is released. On Wednesday Microsoft’s security team said it has detected over 10,000 that have … Continue reading

Tuesday brought a warning from Microsoft to users of a vulnerability in Windows 7 64-bit and Windows Server 2008 R2 that could expose users to malware attacks. The bug, which resides in the Canonical Display driver, is likely to just … Continue reading

Microsoft is currently investigating a flaw in older versions of SharePoint Server. An independent security researcher discovered the bug which can easily expose credentials and sensitive data. The vulnerability has been confirmed in SharePoint 2007, and is likely to be … Continue reading

The infamous Storm Botnet died out 18 months ago, but researchers say it back! Storm was said to be responsible for 20% of the worlds spam. It began slowing down in Sept 2007 when Microsoft’s Malicious Software Removal Tool started … Continue reading

A sneaky little trojan backdoor found it’;s way into software that’s used to monitor rechargeable energizer products. Energizer admitted over two weeks ago that it’s duo ESB battery charger loaded a data-grabbing backdoor on user’s machines. The infected file was … Continue reading

The Zeus DIY malware is now protecting itself against piracy. The latest version is now using hardware-based product activation?like Microsoft Windows’. ?This feature has been added to prevent the software from being copied. Users will need a key after installation … Continue reading

Some of the most prolific cyber operations have been hard hit bit a recent growing trend in ISPs.? Around a quarter of the control and command severs that are linked to Zeus-bots have been taken offline. The action has been … Continue reading

Microsoft has confirmed a potentially dangerous and unpatched vulnerability in Internet explorer, when the F1 button is pressed in earlier versions of windows. The bug is within the VBS that is integrated with Internet Explorer. Making it potentially possible to … Continue reading

Microsoft’s vision for end to end trust is based around cloud computing. They are working towards a claims-based identity metasystem, and are making a call for the prevention/disruption of cybercrime. Scott Charney, ?CVP of? Microsofts TCG said: ?End to End … Continue reading