Windows Defender Firewall: Public Profile: Apply local firewall rules

The policy determines whether the local firewall rules are merged with GP settings when connected to a public network. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2018 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders...

Windows Defender Firewall: Public Profile: Apply local connection security rules

The policy determines whether the local connection rules are merged with GP settings when connected to a public network. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2018 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders...

Windows Defender Firewall: firewall profiles status.

This test checks the setting for policy OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: winadvsecprofilestatus.nasl 10010 2018-05-29 14:43:35Z emoss $ Check value for Windows Defender Firewall: Enable Firewall Authors: Emanuel Moss Copyright: Copyright c 2018 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net Thi...

Windows Defender Firewall: Inbound connections

This test checks the setting for policy OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: winadvsecprofileinboundcon.nasl 10010 2018-05-29 14:43:35Z emoss $ Check value for Windows Defender Firewall: Inbound connections Authors: Emanuel Moss Copyright: Copyright c 2018 Greenbone Networks GmbH,...

Adding transparency and context into industry AV test results

Corporate Vice President Brad Anderson recently shared his insights on how Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection Windows Defender ATP evolved to achieve important quality milestones. Our Windows Defender ATP team is committed to delivering industry-leading protection, customer choice, and...

Windows Packer Project for Defenders: DARKSURGEON

Darksurgeon is a Windows packer project to empower incident response, digital forensics, malware analysis, and network defense. Darksurgeon has three stated goals: Accelerate incident response, digital forensics, malware analysis, and network defense with a preconfigured Windows 10 environment...

Microsoft Windows Defender AV: Turn off Windows Defender Antivirus

This policy setting turns off Windows Defender Antivirus. If you enable this policy setting, Windows Defender Antivirus does not run, and computers are not scanned for malware or other potentially unwanted software. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, by default Windows Defend...

CVE-2018-5174

In the Windows 10 April 2018 Update, Windows Defender SmartScreen honors the "SEEMASKFLAGNOUI" flag associated with downloaded files and will not show any UI. Files that are unknown and potentially dangerous will be allowed to run because SmartScreen will not prompt the user for a decision, and i...

Securing the modern workplace with Microsoft 365 threat protection – part 3

This post is authored by Debraj Ghosh, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Microsoft 365 Security. Detecting ransomware in the modern workplace Over the last two weeks, we have shared with you the roots of Microsoft 365 threat protection and how Microsoft 365 threat protect helps protect the modern...

Teaming up in the war on tech support scams

Editors note: Erik Wahlstrom spoke about the far-reaching impact of tech support scams and the need for industry-wide cooperation in his RSA Conference 2018 talk Tech Scams: Its Time to Release the Hounds. Social engineering attacks like tech support scams are so common because theyre so effectiv...

Introducing Windows Defender System Guard runtime attestation

At Microsoft, we want users to be in control of their devices, including knowing the security health of these devices. If important security features should fail, users should be aware. Windows Defender System Guard runtime attestation, a new Windows platform security technology, fills this need...

Introducing Web Security Analytics

Every security team knows that the success of any security product relies heavily on the ability to maintain an optimal security configuration. Any misconfiguration can result in malicious or undesired traffic reaching the application, or worse - legitimate traffic being blocked. In addition, it...

Microsoft Windows Defender - mpengine.dll Memory Corruption

Microsoft Windows Defender - mpengine.dll Memory Corruption Windows Defender inspects a variety of different archive formats, among others RAR. Inspection of mpengine.dll revealed that the code responsible for processing RAR archives appears to be a forked and modified version of the original unr...

Microsoft Windows Defender - mpengine.dll Memory Corruption Exploit

Exploit for windows platform in category dos / poc Windows Defender inspects a variety of different archive formats, among others RAR. Inspection of mpengine.dll revealed that the code responsible for processing RAR archives appears to be a forked and modified version of the original unrar code;...

Microsoft Windows Defender - 'mpengine.dll' Memory Corruption

Windows Defender inspects a variety of different archive formats, among others RAR. Inspection of mpengine.dll revealed that the code responsible for processing RAR archives appears to be a forked and modified version of the original unrar code; given that it still processes the VMSFUPCASE filter...

CVE-2018-0986

A remote code execution vulnerability exists when the Microsoft Malware Protection Engine does not properly scan a specially crafted file, leading to memory corruption, aka "Microsoft Malware Protection Engine Remote Code Execution Vulnerability." This affects Windows Defender, Windows Intune...

CVE-2018-0986

A remote code execution vulnerability exists when the Microsoft Malware Protection Engine does not properly scan a specially crafted file, leading to memory corruption, aka "Microsoft Malware Protection Engine Remote Code Execution Vulnerability." This affects Windows Defender, Windows Intune...

Remote code execution

A remote code execution vulnerability exists when the Microsoft Malware Protection Engine does not properly scan a specially crafted file, leading to memory corruption, aka "Microsoft Malware Protection Engine Remote Code Execution Vulnerability." This affects Windows Defender, Windows Intune...

CVE-2018-0986

A remote code execution vulnerability exists when the Microsoft Malware Protection Engine does not properly scan a specially crafted file, leading to memory corruption, aka "Microsoft Malware Protection Engine Remote Code Execution Vulnerability." This affects Windows Defender, Windows Intune...

CVE-2018-0986

CVE-2018-0986 (Microsoft Malware Protection Engine RCE) arises when the engine fails to properly scan a specially crafted file, causing memory corruption. This enables an attacker to execute arbitrary code with Local System privileges on affected systems, potentially taking control. Affected prod...