In a blast from the past, a European researcher has uncovered an easy bug in the NTFS file system that constantly crashed Windows Vista to 8. 1 PCs. Like the notorious Windows 95/98 /con/con bug, by entering a record name with “$MFT” the file-system bug locks up Windows best case situation or dumps it into […]
The most machines hit by the WannaCry ransomware worm in the cyber-attack earlier in may were running Windows 7, security organizations suggest. Much more than 97% of the infections seen by Kaspersky Lab and 66% of those seen by BitSight used the older software. WannaCry started spreading in mid-May and, so much, has infected more […]
A newly found flaw in widely used networking software leaves tens of hundreds of computers potentially susceptible to an attack similar to that caused by WannaCry, which infected more than 300, 000 computers worldwide, cybersecurity researchers said on Thursday. The US Division of Homeland Security on Wednesday announced the susceptibility, which could be used to […]
Support yourselves for a possible ‘second wave’ of substantial global cyber attack, as SMB (Server Message Block) has not been the only network protocol whose zero-day uses created by NSA were exposed in the Darkness Brokers dump last month. Although Microsoft released sections for SMB flaws for supported versions in March and unsupported versions immediately […]
Since more computers in the West Bengal State Electricity Distribution Company’s offices in the districts fell sufferer to ‘WannaCry’ virus strike, the West Bengal authorities today issued a set in place of guidelines to stay in front of the worldwide cyber strike. Guidelines to constantly update the operating systems, as well as the required software, […]