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Mohit Kumar sur Twitter : "It's Time: #Microsoft Releases 12 #Security Updates (5 Critical and 7 Important Patches) Microsoft Releases 12 Security Updates (5 Critical and 7 Important Patches) With the release of 12 Security Bulletins, Microsoft addresses a total of 56 vulnerabilities in its different products.

Microsoft Releases 12 Security Updates (5 Critical and 7 Important Patches)

The bulletins include five critical updates, out of which two address vulnerabilities in all versions of Windows. The September Patch Tuesday update (released on second Tuesday of each month) makes a total of 105 Security Bulletins being released this year; which is more than the previous year with still three months remaining for the current year to end. The reason for the increase in the total number of security bulletins within such less time might be because of Windows 10 release and its installation reaching to a score of 100 million.

The Windows Phone Freakshow « HITBSecConf2015 – Amsterdam. Überwachung - Warum Microsoft für Landesgrenzen im Netz kämpft. Persistence with Microsoft Outlook. Powershell is a fantastic program.

Persistence with Microsoft Outlook

In reality, you can do just about anything you want with it. It is installed on Windows 7+ by default and there is no way to get rid of it. Microsoft Outlook is a fantastic program. It allows you to receive email, schedule appointments and stay organized. It is used by a vast majority of organizations and is the industry standard for client-side mail software. By using the two, we can achieve slow persistence on a machine by monitoring the default inbox and executing a payload when an email comes in with a specified subject. I will go ahead and show you how to set this up. *All of the files for this can be found here* To begin, we setup our initial attack. Once created, we need to host our files and then send the document to the target. Once downloaded, it schedules a task in the Windows Task Scheduler that executes the VBScript every 20 minutes (this can be changed) using WScript.exe. -Matt Nelson (@enigma0x3)

ID Tracking or How Privacy strengthens Monopolies - PinG Privacy in Germany. Autor: Daniel Schätzle Erstellt am: 26.

ID Tracking or How Privacy strengthens Monopolies - PinG Privacy in Germany

Februar 2014 Rubrik: Cookies, PinG, Tracking The end of the cookie era was announced and the search for ways out of the cookie environment started, beginning with tracking by the use of browser fingerprints, browser cache tracking and, finally, ID tracking. Especially Apple, Google and Microsoft have already implemented respective ID tracking technologies in their software environment and operation systems.

U.S. government excels at getting user data from Microsoft. Microsoft received 70,655 requests for user data from law-enforcement agencies worldwide last year, and more than 80 percent of the time the company handed over at least some info.

U.S. government excels at getting user data from Microsoft

U.S. agencies proved especially adept at getting meatier content from Microsoft -- user emails, photos, and address-book information -- succeeding at a rate of nearly 14 percent compared to the overall worldwide rate of 2.2 percent. This marks the first year that Microsoft has issued this sort of transparency report, which provides raw data on law enforcement requests and court orders the company received in 2012. The data is related to Microsoft's online and cloud services, such as Hotmail/Outlook.com, SkyDrive, Xbox Live, Microsoft Account, Messenger, and Office 365.

Microsoft reported Skype-related disclosure data separately because "Skype collected and retained certain data in different formats than the rest of Microsoft," according to Microsoft general counsel Brad Smith.

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Why Microsoft Costs the World $500 Billion a Year. Subscribe to this blog About Author.

Why Microsoft Costs the World $500 Billion a Year

How to configure automatic updates by using Group Policy or registry settings. If you are logged on as a Computer Administrator or a member of the Administrators group, you may be prompted from the notification area to configure the Automatic Updates feature in Windows.

How to configure automatic updates by using Group Policy or registry settings

For more information about the availability of the Automatic Updates feature and how to configure and use it in Windows 7, Windows Vista, and Windows XP, see Microsoft Knowledge Base article 306525: How to configure and use Automatic Updates in Windows ( For advanced users or IT Professionals, this article describes the following methods that you can use to configure the Automatic Updates feature: Use Group PolicyChange the registry Configure Automatic Updates by using local Group Policy Click Start, and then click Run.Type gpedit.msc, and then click OK.Expand Computer Configuration. Collapse this imageExpand this image ( To download the updated Administrative Template for Windows 2000-based and Windows XP-based computers, go to the Software Update Services 1.0 ADM File for Service Pack 1.

Error Message: Your Password Must Be at Least 18770 Characters and Cannot Repeat Any of Your Previous 30689 Passwords. If you log on to an MIT realm, press CTRL+ALT+DELETE, click Change Password, type your existing MIT password, and then type a new, simple password that does not pass the dictionary check in Kadmind, you may receive the following error message: Your password must be at least 18770 characters and cannot repeat any of your previous 30689 passwords.

Error Message: Your Password Must Be at Least 18770 Characters and Cannot Repeat Any of Your Previous 30689 Passwords

Please type a different password. Type a password that meets these requirements in both text boxes. Note that the number of required characters changes from 17,145 to 18,770 with the installation of SP1.