Microsoft has re-released one of the August security patches for Windows Server 2008 in order to fix a regression issue that would cause some servers to stop working. The MS13-066 patch was released again Monday after Microsoft discovered the problem last week.
Researchers have spotted a new version of the Jigsaw pen-testing tool which builds email lists used in spam and phishing campaigns from the Jigsaw business directory.
One day after the New York Times Web site was offline for several hours due to what experts speculated was an attack, the site of the Washington Post was hacked, apparently by the Syrian Electronic Army. Officials at the Post said that the attack followed closely on the heels of the SEA hacking the Twitter account of one of its employees.
Microsoft has pulled back MS13-061, a critical patch released yesterday for Exchange Server 2013 because it breaks indexing on the messaging server.
Buried in the details of the Microsoft Patch Tuesday release for August is the explanation of an important change that the company made to Windows that defeats a group of exploit mitigation bypasses. The change is a small one, but it prevents dangerous attacks that previously worked on most supported version of Windows.
Microsoft’s August 2013 Patch Tuesday security updates includes patches for critical remote code execution vulnerabilities in a number of products.
Microsoft will ship three critical bulletins among its August 2013 Patch Tuesday security updates, including patches for critical, remotely exploitable vulnerabilities in IE, Exchange Server and Windows.
Microsoft issued an advisory warning of a weakness in the PEAP authentication protocol for Windows Phone 8.
Las Vegas – In the last Black Hat briefing of the day Wednesday, German security researcher Karsten Nohl of Security Research Labs demonstrated a SIM card attack that exploited sloppy encryption and gave the researcher root access to a type of SIM card built into billions of mobile devices.
A 213-foot luxury yacht veered off course while cruising in the Mediterranean Sea this summer after a radio navigation research team led by global positioning systems expert Todd Humphreys of the University of Texas Austin built a custom-made device capable of overriding the ship’s GPS receivers with spoofed signals.
Infosec Insider content is written by a trusted community of Threatpost cybersecurity subject matter experts. Each contribution has a goal of bringing a unique voice to important cybersecurity topics. Content strives to be of the highest quality, objective and non-commercial.
Sponsored Content is paid for by an advertiser. Sponsored content is written and edited by members of our sponsor community. This content creates an opportunity for a sponsor to provide insight and commentary from their point-of-view directly to the Threatpost audience. The Threatpost editorial team does not participate in the writing or editing of Sponsored Content.
