Microsoft will improve security and fight cyber espionage – Lainformacion.com

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San Francisco ( USA ), 14 Oct.- Microsoft said today it will offer a security patch that will allow customers to upgrade their operating systems and protect against potential attacks such as cyberspies against NATO and Ukraine.

The decision comes after the technology company that security firm iSight Partners revealed on Monday that a group of cyberspies had used a vulnerability in Windows systems to access NATO Ukrainian government and some European energy companies and telecommunications.

“The October 14, as part of our regular safety process automations, distribute MS14-060 the security patch to help protect customers against this problem, “said a spokeswoman for Microsoft said in a statement.

The big news of the revelation of iSight, which attributes spying Russia , is that revealed the weakness of Windows.

According to the security firm, virtually every version of Windows operating system from Vista, suffers the vulnerability that allows access to the cyberspies systems.

iSight said the group of cyber espionage “Sandworm” has taken advantage of this “hole” Windows Security to achieve their goals.

iSight Partners said no details of the information that the pirates have been stealing, but that, by the nature of the detected vulnerability attacked all entities could be “damaged to some extent “.

” Many baits have observed regarding the conflict in Ukraine and Russia and other geopolitical issues related to Russia, “said cybersecurity firm.

” Sandworm ” a group that believes iSight Partners active since 2009, used the Windows vulnerability and techniques of “phishing” (replace the look of a website to try to illegally obtain confidential data of the Internet) and malicious files to access the information.

If exploited this vulnerability affects computers from Windows 8.1 to Windows Vista SP2 and Windows Server 2008 and 2012, a hacker can execute code on a computer remotely.

iSight said Microsoft has developed a patch that ends this vulnerability and considers it a hole little known and has only exploited “Sandworm”

(Reuters)

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