Windows 10
Alert: New DLL Variant Used For Malicious Code Execution
Recent research findings have brought to light a new DLL variant pertaining to search order hijacking techniques. As per recent reports, this dynamic link library variant could potentially be used by threat ...
Use Windows 10? You Must PAY for Security
Micro$oft Window$ E$U: From October 2025, Microsoft will start charging for security updates to Windows 10 ...
Windows 11: Registry Keys, SMB Protocol, and SystemInfo
Windows 11 was released on October 5, 2021. It has several new installation requirements including, most notably, Secure Boot and a Trusted Platform Module. These features can provide a more secure computing ...
Microsoft Announces Internet Explorer 11’s Retirement Timeline
Microsoft has announced the first stages of the Internet Explorer 11 shutdown in a phase-out process meant to give users and businesses ample time to find other solutions. Simply removing Internet Explorer ...
Severe Windows 10 Vulnerabilities Fixed Ahead of Patch Tuesday
Microsoft released an out-of-band update for Windows 10 to patch a couple of high-severity vulnerabilities affecting the Windows Codecs Library that would allow attackers to execute arbitrary code. Windows 10 users are ...
Fiddling with Windows: Proxy tools for Win10
If you have been following along with us, you know how to set up a Windows 10 Virtual Machine (VM) for web app pentesting. But now we have run into another problem ...
Critical Windows Vulnerability, Dating App Security Risk, Apple iOS Privacy Features
In episode 104 for January 20th 2020: Details on the new critical Microsoft Windows vulnerability, why dating apps could pose a national security risk, and how new Apple privacy features are changing ...
Patch or Mitigate Dangerous Microsoft Windows CryptoAPI Spoofing Vulnerability ASAP
Qualys is a sponsor of TechSpective Microsoft kicked off the new decade with a bang. Last Tuesday was the first Microsoft Patch Tuesday of 2020, and one of the patches pushed out ...
Patch Tuesday, January 2020 Edition
Microsoft today released updates to plug 50 security holes in various flavors of Windows and related software. The patch batch includes a fix for a flaw in Windows 10 and server equivalents ...
In Case of Fire: Break Windows
When a client calls us to pentest a web application that is only available in Internet Explorer. I cringe. I don’t know if it’s flashbacks from the countless hours spent getting a ...
