Microsoft has released a free update to Cure The security vulnerability, Tuesday, and praised the agency for discovering that vulnerability.
The company stated that it did not see any evidence that the hackers used the technology used by the National Security Agency, noting that any attacker may exploit the security vulnerability by using a false signature certificate so that the file appears to be from a reliable source.
The company said: “The user will not know the malicious file because the digital signature will appear to be coming from a trusted source.”
According to Microsoft, if a hacker manages to exploit that vulnerability successfully, he will be able to launch “intermediary attacks”, a type of penetration, where the attacker infiltrates two interlocutors in a network without their knowledge, and decrypts classified information on the user’s contact list.
And some computers will deal with the problem automatically, if the option to update automatically is enabled, while other computers can handle the problem with it manually.
Microsoft releases monthly security and other updates, and waited until, Tuesday, to detect bugs and the role National Security In discovering and warning him.
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But instead of exploiting that vulnerability to serve her intelligence needs, she reported The National Security Agency Microsoft So that everyone can fix the system.
Microsoft has released a free update to Cure The security vulnerability, Tuesday, and praised the agency for discovering that vulnerability.
The company stated that it did not see any evidence that the hackers used the technology used by the National Security Agency, noting that any attacker may exploit the security vulnerability by using a false signature certificate so that the file appears to be from a reliable source.
The company said: “The user will not know the malicious file because the digital signature will appear to be coming from a trusted source.”
According to Microsoft, if a hacker manages to exploit that vulnerability successfully, he will be able to launch “intermediary attacks”, a type of penetration, where the attacker infiltrates two interlocutors in a network without their knowledge, and decrypts classified information on the user’s contact list.
And some computers will deal with the problem automatically, if the option to update automatically is enabled, while other computers can handle the problem with it manually.
Microsoft releases monthly security and other updates, and waited until, Tuesday, to detect bugs and the role National Security In discovering and warning him.
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