Articles for February 2017

KasperskyOS — Secure Operating System released for IoT and Embedded Systems

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Russian cyber security and antivirus vendor Kaspersky Lab has made available the much awaited KasperskyOS, a secure-by-design operating system based on Microkernel architecture which is specially designed for network devices, industrial control systems and the Internet of Things.

The operating system is not made for your average home PC; instead, it is meant to protect industrial systems and embedded devices from cyber attacks by preventing any third-party or malicious code from executing.

Kaspersky Lab CEO Eugene Kaspersky confirmed the rumors of a new operating system on his official blog published on Monday, saying this project under the codename 11-11 has been in the works for 14 years and has been designed from scratch.

Source: KasperskyOS — Secure Operating System released for IoT and Embedded Systems

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Using ACMESharp and PowerShell to issue letsencrypt.org certificates for IIS 

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I just wrote, and posted, a extremely detailed article on using ACMESharp with LetsEncrypt.org for getting SSL running on your Windows Server.

Please take a quick look if this is something that interests you.

If it does, please leave me comments via Twitter and I’ll try to answer them as quickly as I can.

Source: Using ACMESharp and PowerShell to issue letsencrypt.org certificates for IIS

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Microsoft to delay its February patches to March 14 | ZDNet

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Microsoft’s February Patch Tuesday patches are not going to arrive until Tuesday March 14, officials confirm, while providing no reasons for the delay.

In what’s seemingly an unprecedented event, Microsoft is withholding its regularly scheduled Patch Tuesday updates and patches for a month.

On February 15, the day after Microsoft’s regular Patch Tuesday was scheduled, officials said its previously slated February patches would not arrive until Tuesday, March 14.

Microsoft officials said very little yesterday about the reasons the company didn’t deliver its Patch Tuesday patches on the second Tuesday of the month, as has been the case for the last several years.

In an update to yesterday’s blog post announcing the delay, Microsoft officials also didn’t shed any new light on the reasons for the delay.

Source: Microsoft to delay its February patches to March 14 | ZDNet

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WordPress Used as Command and Control Server in 2016 Election Hack

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On Friday evening the Department of Homeland Security released a report [PDF link] containing updated and broader analysis of Russian civilian and military intelligence organization’s attempts to interfere with the 2016 US election. This Wordfence report is an analysis of the new ‘Enhanced Grizzly Steppe Report’ and the data it includes. We show that one of the websites used in […]

Source: WordPress Used as Command and Control Server in 2016 Election Hack

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New “Fileless Malware” Targets Banks and Organizations Spotted in the Wild

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More than a hundred banks and financial institutions across the world have been infected with a dangerous sophisticated, memory-based malware that’s almost undetectable, researchers warned.

Newly published report by the Russian security firm Kaspersky Lab indicates that hackers are targeting banks, telecommunication companies, and government organizations in 40 countries, including the US, South America, Europe and Africa, with Fileless malware that resides solely in the memory of the compromised computers.

Fileless malware was first discovered by the same security firm in 2014, has never been mainstream until now.

Source: New “Fileless Malware” Targets Banks and Organizations Spotted in the Wild

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