Beacon's Blog » Windows 7 http://blog.beacontechsolutions.com Helpful Computer News to keep your computer up and running. Provided by Beacon Technology Solutions LLC. Serving Metro Detroit. Wed, 18 Jan 2012 00:10:56 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= Windows kernel ‘zero-day’ found in Duqu attack | ZDNet http://blog.beacontechsolutions.com/windows-kernel-zero-day-found-in-duqu-attack-zdnet/ http://blog.beacontechsolutions.com/windows-kernel-zero-day-found-in-duqu-attack-zdnet/#comments Wed, 02 Nov 2011 00:48:17 +0000 Beacon (Eric Vogel) http://blog.beacontechsolutions.com/windows-kernel-zero-day-found-in-duqu-attack-zdnet/  

Summary: One version of the attack was triggered by a rigged Microsoft Word .doc that probably included some social engineering and required the target to open the booby-trapped file.

The mysterious Duqu malware attack exploited a zero-day vulnerability in the Windows kernel, according to security researchers tracking the Stuxnet-like cyber-surveillance Trojan.

Windows kernel ‘zero-day’ found in Duqu attack | ZDNet

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By Gregg Keizer
June 30, 2011 02:07 PM ET

Computerworld – Microsoft yesterday clarified the advice it gave users whose Windows PCs are infected with a new, sophisticated rootkit that buries itself on the hard drive’s boot sector.

Microsoft clarifies MBR rootkit removal advice – Computerworld

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Microsoft announced today that a new root-kit causes so much havoc by bury’s itself deep into the computer’s boot sector, that infected users will be forced to perform a re-install of the operating system to fix the problem.
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