Meta Takes Down Fake Facebook and Instagram Accounts Linked to Pro-U.S. Influence Operation

Meta Platforms on Tuesday said it took down a network of accounts and pages across Facebook and Instagram that were operated by people associated with the U.S. military to spread narratives that depicted the country in a favorable light in the Middle East and Central Asia. The network, which...

SideWinder APT Using New WarHawk Backdoor to Target Entities in Pakistan

SideWinder, a prolific nation-state actor mainly known for targeting Pakistan military entities, compromised the official website of the National Electric Power Regulatory Authority NEPRA to deliver a tailored malware called WarHawk. "The newly discovered WarHawk backdoor contains various malicio...

North Korean Hackers Targeting Small and Midsize Businesses with H0lyGh0st Ransomware

An emerging threat cluster originating from North Korea has been linked to developing and using ransomware in cyberattacks targeting small businesses since September 2021. The group, which calls itself H0lyGh0st after the ransomware payload of the same name, is being tracked by the Microsoft Thre...

October 2012 cumulative time zone update for Windows operating systems

October 2012 cumulative time zone update for Windows operating systems Summary This update supersedes and replaces update 2633952, which was released in December 2011 and 2732052 which was released in August 2012 through Download Center. All additional time zone changes released as hotfixes after...

December 2013 cumulative time zone update for Windows operating systems

December 2013 cumulative time zone update for Windows operating systems Summary This update supersedes and replaces the update that is described in Microsoft Knowledge Base KB article 2863058, which was released in August 2013. All additional time zone changes that were released as hotfixes after...

Linux: Read /etc/ntp.conf (KB)

The ntpd program is an operating system daemon which sets and maintains the system time of day in synchronism with Internet standard time servers. It is a complete implementation of the Network Time Protocol NTP version 4, but also retains compatibility with version 3, as defined by RFC-1305, and...

Scientific Linux Security Update : tzdata on SL4.x, SL5.x, SL6.x i386/x86_64

This updated package addresses the following changes to Daylight Saving Time DST : - Chile was supposed to switch to the standard time April 2nd, 2011. With this update Daylight Saving Time is retained for additional five weeks and the system switches to standard time on May 7th, 2011. BZ691432,...