Microsoft releases Sigcheck 2.0

Friday, October 25th, 2013

Sigcheck is a command-line utility that shows file version number, timestamp information, and digital signature details, including certificate chains. Version 2.0 adds integration with the VirusTotal antivirus scanner aggregation service. Sigcheck can now check the status of a file against over 40 antivirus engines and launch the associated online VirusTotal report, and ...

Critical Internet Explorer exploit code released in the wild

Tuesday, October 1st, 2013

Attack code that exploits a critical vulnerability in all supported versions of Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser has been publicly released. Monday's release of a module for the Metasploit exploit framework used by security professionals and hackers could broaden the base of attackers who are capable of targeting the flaw. Until now, the bug ...

The NSA Is Breaking Most Encryption on the Internet

Thursday, September 5th, 2013

The new Snowden revelations are explosive. Basically, the NSA is able to decrypt most of the Internet. They're doing it primarily by cheating, not by mathematics. It's joint reporting between the Guardian, the New York Times, and ProPublica. I have been working with Glenn Greenwald on the Snowden documents, and I have seen a lot ...

Orbit Downloader hacked, turns users into DDoS bots

Friday, August 23rd, 2013

Denial of service attack capabilities have been found in popular media program Orbit Downloader. The Windows program integrated into web browsers and was downloaded more than 1.5 million times from website Softpedia and 18,000 times last month alone from rival Softonic. It was still available for download on these sites. But Eset ...

Microsoft: Upgrade from Windows XP or risk infinite “zero-days”

Monday, August 19th, 2013

Microsoft is intensifying its efforts asking users to scrap Windows XP, the 12-year-old operating system for which the software giant is ending support next April. Tim Rains, director of Microsoft Trustworthy Computing, authored a blog post last week reminding customers of the perils that could await them should they continue running XP, which ...