Tuesday, April 14, 2015

The discovery of new loophole threatens all Windows systems

إكتشاف ثغرة جديدة تهدد جميع أنظمة ويندوز What serious security vulnerabilities continues to threaten a large number of software and systems in the digital world, and in this regard, media reported the discovery of a group of researchers and experts to serious security loophole threatens all Microsoft systems including Windows 10 system.

Reuters news agency quoted a security company "Cylance" that experts security discovered a new loophole threatens all Windows systems including Windows 10 new with the exception of Windows Phone system, and is the means that smartphones engaged in this system is not threatened, and most unusual that this loophole old more than 20 years, according to experts.

Researchers in Cylance company says that this loophole enables hackers from hacking password names and passwords for the accounts of millions of users, since this loophole has been discovered for the first time in 1990 and bears the name "Redirect to SMB" and was able to launch an electronic attack from Type "A man in the middle attack / Man-in-the-middle attack".

According to the available information, the Microsoft systems are not the target of the attack and alone but there are also other companies as Apple, Adobe, or as well as Oracle, while Microsoft has indicated that it has worked to reduce the effects of this vulnerability.

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