Microsoft: Windows 24H2 will remove Cortana and WordPad apps

May 24, 2024 at 03:05PM Microsoft announced that the Cortana, Tips, and WordPad applications will be automatically removed from systems upgraded to Windows 11 24H2 release. In addition, the company revealed plans to deprecate other features, including the Defender Application Guard for Office and VBScript, as part of ongoing efforts to enhance security. From the … Read more

Critical SOCKS5 Vulnerability in cURL Puts Enterprise Systems at Risk

October 11, 2023 at 12:06PM Patches have been released for a critical memory corruption vulnerability in the cURL data transfer project. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2023-38545, affects the SOCKS5 proxy handshake process in cURL, allowing remote exploitation in certain configurations. The bug can lead to heap buffer overflow, and affected versions are 7.69.0 to 8.3.0. … Read more

CISA Warns of Attacks Exploiting Adobe Acrobat Vulnerability 

October 11, 2023 at 06:42AM The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added five security vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. These include an Adobe Acrobat and Reader flaw that can be exploited for remote code execution, an out-of-bounds write flaw in Cisco IOS and IOS XE, two zero-days impacting Skype for … Read more

October 10, 2023 at 02:36PM – Microsoft Fixes Exploited Zero-Days in WordPad, Skype for Business

October 10, 2023 at 02:36PM Microsoft released a large batch of software and OS updates to address over 100 vulnerabilities across Windows systems. They warned that three of these vulnerabilities are already being exploited. The updates also targeted a zero-day vulnerability in HTTP/2 Rapid Reset that exposed the internet to DDoS attacks. Two other zero-day … Read more

Microsoft Patch Tuesday Haunted by Zero-Days, Wormable Bug

October 10, 2023 at 06:06PM Microsoft’s October Patch Tuesday update addressed two zero-day vulnerabilities that were actively being attacked, affecting Microsoft WordPad and Skype for Business. A critical-rated bug in Message Queuing was also patched. The update included a total of 103 CVEs, with 13 critical-rated vulnerabilities and 20% of the fixes related to Microsoft … Read more