An advanced group of hackers thought to be from China have been found utilizing a Windows zero-day bug in a spate of attacks towards technology infrastructure companies all over the world. Named “Hurricane Panda” experts at CrowdStrike discovered the team earlier this year taking advantage …
Read More »Microsoft Set to Release Critical Internet Explorer Security Update
Microsoft is scheduled to push out four security bulletins this following Tuesday addressing problems in Windows, Internet Explorer and other products. Just one of the bulletins – the main one addressing Internet Explorer – is rated ‘Critical.’ The other three are classified by Microsoft as …
Read More »Microsoft’s Violation to catch Windows 8 Source Leaker
Outlook.com email should be private, Microsoft said in a recent blog post that then went on to explain why it violated that belief in privacy for at least one user. Recently, a former Microsoft employee was arrested in Seattle, charged with theft of trade secrets. The ex-employee, …
Read More »IE Zero-day targeting US Government
Fireeye, a well-known security firm has discovered a targeted and complex attack that they believe to be directed at US military employees. Fireeye is referring to this specific attack as “Operation SnowMan“. The attack was hosted off a compromised site, the U.S. Veterans of Foreign Wars. Webpages …
Read More »Microsoft Releases Government Requests for User data
US Government has agreed to allow technology companies to publish data about FISA orders. “While there remain some constraints on what we can publish, we are now able to present a comprehensive picture of the types of requests that we receive from the U.S. Government pursuant to …
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