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In 2013 Microsoft added a feature to Windows 8.1 that would allow turning off the feature that could be exploited. [1] In Windows 10 the feature is turned off by default, but Jake Williams from Rendition Infosec says that it remains effective, either because the system runs an outdated version of Windows, or he can use privilege escalation to gain enough control over the target to turn on the ...
Ghacks was created in 2005 as a development blog for a software called Google Hacks. [12] Trademark issues made the founder of the site pick ghacks as the domain name. The software was soon thereafter discontinued and Ghacks turned from a development type blog to a software and online news oriented blog.
EternalBlue [5] is a computer exploit software developed by the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA). [6] It is based on a vulnerability in Microsoft Windows that allowed users to gain access to any number of computers connected to a network.
At the time of launch, Microsoft deemed Windows 7 (with Service Pack 1) and Windows 8.1 users eligible to upgrade to Windows 10 free of charge, so long as the upgrade took place within one year of Windows 10's initial release date. Windows RT and the respective Enterprise editions of Windows 7, 8, and 8.1 were excluded from this offer.
The hack utilises a ChatGPT trick known as the ‘grandma exploit’, which bypasses the AI chatbot’s rules by asking it to pretend to be a dead grandmother. “ChatGPT gives you free Windows 10 ...
On 19 July at 04:09 UTC, CrowdStrike distributed a faulty configuration update for its Falcon sensor software running on Windows PCs and servers. A modification to a configuration file which was responsible for screening named pipes, Channel File 291, caused an out-of-bounds memory read [14] in the Windows sensor client that resulted in an invalid page fault.
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Pwn2Own is a computer hacking contest held annually at the CanSecWest security conference. [1] First held in April 2007 in Vancouver, [2] the contest is now held twice a year, [3] most recently in March 2024. [4]