#windows

In its latest Windows preview, Microsoft adds a feature — Administrator Protection — designed to prevent threat actors from easily escalating privileges and restrict lateral movement.

Rather than setting a regular cadence for changing passwords, users only need to change their passwords if there is evidence of a breach.

CVE description: Authd, through version 0.3.6, did not sufficiently randomize user IDs to prevent collisions. A local attacker who can register user names could spoof another user's ID and gain their privileges. ----- original report ----- # Cause authd assigns user IDs as a pure function of the user name. Moreover, the set of UIDs is much too small for pseudo-random assignment to work: the birthday bound predicts random collisions will occur with probability 50% after only 54 562 IDs were assigned. `authd` only checks for uniqueness [within its local cache](https://github.com/ubuntu/authd/blob/4946962aa4ac6e5b7d2b53503026659581c73907/internal/users/cache/update.go#L67-L71), which - may be inconsistent across multiple systems within the same domain ; - may be purged, due to being stored in `/var/cache` ; - automatically removes entries of users who have not logged into that specific system within the last 6 months. The current `GenerateID` method, authored in September 2024 (commi...

Palo Alto Networks GlobalProtect versions 5.1.x, 5.2.x, 6.0.x, 6.1.x, 6.3.x and versions less than 6.2.5 suffer from a local privilege escalation vulnerability.

As of January 10, 2023, CISA will no longer be updating ICS security advisories for Siemens product vulnerabilities beyond the initial advisory. For the most up-to-date information on vulnerabilities in this advisory, please see Siemens' ProductCERT Security Advisories (CERT Services | Services | Siemens Global).  View CSAF 1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v4 9.3 ATTENTION: Low Attack Complexity Vendor: Siemens Equipment: PSS SINCAL Vulnerabilities: Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer 2. RISK EVALUATION Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to cause a denial-of-service condition or kernel memory corruption on the affected device. 3. TECHNICAL DETAILS 3.1 AFFECTED PRODUCTS The following Siemens products are affected if WibuKey dongles are used: PSS SINCAL: All versions 3.2 Vulnerability Overview 3.2.1 IMPROPER RESTRICTION OF OPERATIONS WITHIN THE BOUNDS OF A MEMORY BUFFER CWE-119 An issue was discovered in WibuKey64.sys in WIB...

Cisco Talos is releasing a GDT file on GitHub that contains various definitions for functions and data types.

The parents of a 19-year-old Connecticut honors student accused of taking part in a $243 million cryptocurrency heist in August were carjacked a week later, while out house-hunting in a brand new Lamborghini. Prosecutors say the couple was beaten and briefly kidnapped by six young men who traveled from Florida as part of a botched plan to hold the parents for ransom.

Trojan.AutoIt.1443 targets 28,000 users, spreading via game cheats and office tools. This cryptomining and cryptostealing malware bypasses antivirus…

Threat actors with ties to North Korea have been observed targeting job seekers in the tech industry to deliver updated versions of known malware families tracked as BeaverTail and InvisibleFerret. The activity cluster, tracked as CL-STA-0240, is part of a campaign dubbed Contagious Interview that Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 first disclosed in November 2023. "The threat actor behind CL-STA-0240