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Detecting Risky Third-party Drivers on Windows Assets

Tenable

Kernel-mode drivers are critical yet risky components of the Windows operating system. Windows is an operating system that, over its 40-plus years of history, has developed more than a few arcane components that are a mystery to many systems administrators. What is a kernel-mode driver?

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Not-so-Portable Document Format

The Daily WTF

Adrian worked for a document services company. Adrian's boss, Lester, was too busy "developing high-end printing solutions on a Unix system" to spend any time in that sub-sub-basement, and instead embedded himself with the client's IT team. "It's "The high speed printer is a Unix system, you know this."

Windows 76
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Microsoft’s May 2023 Patch Tuesday Addresses 38 CVEs (CVE-2023-29336)

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Important CVE-2023-29336 | Win32k Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability CVE-2023-29336 is an EoP vulnerability in Microsoft’s Win32k, a core kernel-side driver used in Windows. Exploitation of this vulnerability would allow an attacker to gain SYSTEM level privileges on an affected host. This vulnerability received a CVSSv3 score of 7.8

Windows 97
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A Windows Developer in Mac Land

Successful Software

Few developers would choose their development platform on the merits of their respective Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) but it happens that applications developed in Windows need to be made available on the Mac platform. Mac operating systems since Catalina (released in 2019) are 64-bit only.

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June Patch Tuesday 2022

Ivanti

We started off with 85 CVEs addressed in Windows 10 in January, dropped to a low of 21 CVEs in February, and are back up to 97 CVEs addressed in May. This month, we saw 33 vulnerabilities fixed in Windows 10 and its associated servers. due to its Network attack vector and Low complexity to exploit. It has a CVSS score of 9.8

Windows 98
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Cybersecurity Snapshot: CISA Breaks Into Agency, Outlines Weak Spots in Report, as Cloud Security Alliance Updates Cloud Sec Guidance

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The 29-page report details the so-called SilentShield assessment from CISA’s red team, explains what the agency’s security team should have done differently and offers concrete recommendations and best practices you might find worth reviewing. Separately, the red team also breached the network’s Windows environment via a phishing attack.

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Operating System Characteristics (Features)

The Crazy Programmer

The operating system is the software that enables an ideal environment for all these application software to work effectively. And without using an operating system, it is not possible to use smartphone devices to computer devices efficiently. What is an Operating System? Operating System Characteristics.