Tag: Microsoft

How to copy iOS 8’s Continuity Using Windows Phone 8.1 and Windows 8.1

June 8, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

When Microsoft announced and launched the original version of Windows Phone, industry insiders had no idea that the operating system would inspire changes across the entire company. It was Windows Phone that brought the flat colorful tiles and gradient-less interface to the masses. It was Windows Phone that first included effortless cloud syncing with SkyDrive. Windows Phone has had such an impact on Microsoft’s software and services that the team in charge of creating Windows Phone now oversees the team that manages Windows. As of late, the synergy between Windows and Windows Phone has started to show some very unique results. Today, Windows Phone 8.1 and Windows 8.1 users can have their Internet Explorer favorites, passwords and accent colors sync across their phone, tablet and desktop PC. …

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How to copy iOS 8â€™s Continuity Using Windows Phone 8.1 and Windows 8.1

Quickly Secure Your Computer With Microsoft’s Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET)

June 7, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

Only one cash prize went unclaimed at Pwn2Own 2014. All major browsers were hacked, but hackers were unable to claim the $150,000 grand prize for hacking IE 11 secured with EMET. Secure your own PC with EMET today. Microsoft is targeting EMET more at system administrators, but any Windows user can use EMET to quickly enable some additional security features without any special knowledge. This tool can even help secure outdated Windows XP systems. Quickly Secure Popular Applications Download the Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET) from Microsoft and install it. Select the Use Recommended Settings option to enable recommended settings to protect commonly exploited programs like Internet Explorer, Microsoft Office, Adobe Reader, and the insecure Java plug-in. Next, launch the EMET GUI application from your Start menu…

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Quickly Secure Your Computer With Microsoftâ€™s Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET)

Bypassing Windows ASLR in Microsoft Word using Component Object Model (COM) objects

June 1, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

A couple of months ago a RTF 0-day was used in attacks and to bypass ASLR (Address Space Layout Randomization) it was using a non-ASLR module MSCOMCTL.OCX. This got me interested to research into how it was actually loading up and discover if there were any more modules that could be used in the future following the recent Microsoft bulletin MS14-024 that finally implemented ASLR on the module. I started with an exploit taken from MetaSploit which exploits the Microsoft Word RTF Object Confusion vulnerability (CVE-2014-1761) and patched in April updates MS14-017 . This exploit uses module MSCOMCTL.OCX to bypass ASLR and what I needed was that part of the code so removed all other code leaving it just to load the OCX file. …

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Bypassing Windows ASLR in Microsoft Word using Component Object Model (COM) objects

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Microsoft Releases User Experience Virtualization 2.1 Beta

May 26, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

The virtual desktop solution gains Office 2013 and Windows 8 support, along with enhanced user setting roaming, backup and restore features. Following on the heels of the Desktop Optimization Pack 2014 release, Microsoft has announced a beta of the user settings management component, called User Experience Virtualization (UE-V). Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP) is the software giant’s desktop virtualization and management toolset. Mainstream corporate adoption of smartphones and tablets make it less likely that users will rush to their laptops and desktop PCs for all of their computing needs. The downside is inconsistent settings across devices that can impede productivity. – See more at: http://www.eweek.com/enterprise-apps/microsoft-releases-user-experience-virtualization-2.1-beta.html#sthash.VhLQPWez.dpuf To learn more and to read the entire article at its …

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How to Get Security Updates for Windows XP Until April 2019

May 25, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

Microsoft’s official support for the Windows XP operating system ended more than a month ago. While some companies and organizations are still receiving updates for the operating system, end users do not. These companies pay Microsoft for that, usually because they were not able or willed to migrate computer’s running Windows XP to another operating system before the extended support phase for the system ended. There is another exception to the end of support rule: Windows Embedded Industry, formerly known as Windows Embedded POSReady, operating systems continue to receive updates. What makes this interesting is the fact that Windows Embedded POSReady 2009 is based on Windows XP Service Pack 3, and that the security updates released for that system are identical with the ones that Microsoft would have released …

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How to get security updates for Windows XP until April 2019