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Microsoft Guidance to mitigate L1TF variant
Executive Summary On January 3, 2018, Microsoft released an advisory and security updates for a new class of hardware vulnerabilities involving speculative execution side channels known as Spectre and Meltdown. Microsoft is aware of a new speculative execution side channel vulnerability known as ...
Black Hat 2018: Stealthy Kernel Attack Flies Under Windows Mitigation Radar
There are lots of Holy Grails when it comes to compromising endpoints. One of them has long been an attack that leads to kernel ring0 access on a Windows system. That translates into so-called “God Mode” for hackers — and “game over” for victims. This is why Microsoft has gone to great lengths ov...
Hyper-V Debugging Symbols Are Publicly Available
The security of Microsoft’s cloud services is a top priority for us. One of the technologies that is central to cloud security is Microsoft Hyper-V which we use to isolate tenants from one another in the cloud. Given the importance of this technology, Microsoft has made and continues to make...
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...
Analysis of the Shadow Brokers release and mitigation with Windows 10 virtualization-based security
On April 14, a group calling themselves the Shadow Brokers caught the attention of the security community by releasing a set of weaponized exploits. Shortly thereafter, one of these exploits was used to create wormable malware that we now know as WannaCrypt, which targeted a large number of...
Uncovering cross-process injection with Windows Defender ATP
Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection Windows Defender ATP is a post-breach solution that alerts security operations SecOps personnel about hostile activity. As the nature of attacks evolve, Windows Defender ATP must advance so that it continues to help SecOps personnel uncover and address...
Cumulative update for Windows 10 Version 1607 and Windows Server 2016: December 20, 2016
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Microsoft Windows 10 Virtualization-Based Security Bypass - us
Lenovo Security Advisory: LEN-8584 Potential Impact: Microsoft Virtualization-based security bypass by an attacker with administrative privileges Severity: Medium Scope of Impact: Industry-Wide Summary Description: A vulnerability affecting the virtualization-based security in Microsoft Windows 1...