CVE-2020-1464 – Network Securitas

August 11, 2020

Microsoft Patch Tuesday, August 2020 Edition

This post was originally published on this siteMicrosoft today released updates to plug at least 120 security holes in its Windows operating systems and supported software, including two newly discovered vulnerabilities that are actively being exploited. Yes, good people of the Windows world, it’s time once again to backup and patch up! At least 17 of the bugs squashed in August’s patch batch address vulnerabilities Microsoft rates as “critical,” meaning they can be exploited by miscreants or malware to gain complete, remote control over an affected system with little or no help from users. This is the sixth month in […]

August 16, 2020

Microsoft Put Off Fixing Zero Day for 2 Years

This post was originally published on this siteA security flaw in the way Microsoft Windows guards users against malicious files was actively exploited in malware attacks for two years before last week, when Microsoft finally issued a software update to correct the problem. One of the 120 security holes Microsoft fixed on Aug. 11’s Patch Tuesday was CVE-2020-1464, a problem with the way every supported version of Windows validates digital signatures for computer programs. Code signing is the method of using a certificate-based digital signature to sign executable files and scripts in order to verify the author’s identity and ensure […]