Neowin News Feed for: Cert

Governments begin warning all users on Windows 10 end of support and how to deal with it

Sayan Sen — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 07:50:01 +0000

Windows 10 end-of-support date is nearing and now the governments are beginning to issue cautionary notices about it. Read more...

CERT Ukraine: Beware of fake Windows updates distributed via Microsoft Outlook domain emails

Sayan Sen — Mon, 01 May 2023 18:46:01 +0000

The CERT Ukraine has warned about a new malicious campaign that is targeting Ukrainian officials. The campaign is essentially distributing fake Windows updates via Outlook domain mails. Read more...

CERT advises users to 'discontinue use' of two Netgear routers due to major security flaw

Boyd Chan — Sun, 11 Dec 2016 01:16:01 +0000

A new security flaw found in at least two of Netgear's consumer routers has opened them to arbitrary code execution with root privileges using a trivial exploit via the router's web interface. Read more...

CERT: Windows 7 with EMET is more secure than Windows 10, so don't retire EMET

Vlad Dudau — Thu, 24 Nov 2016 09:22:01 +0000

Microsoft announced it would eventually retire its Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET) in 2018, but security researchers are urging the company to keep EMET around longer. Read more...

Massive vulnerability opens Seagate drives to potential data theft

Matt Brown — Tue, 08 Sep 2015 06:16:02 +0000

A new vulnerability has been found in firmware used on three models of Seagate wireless hard drives. An undocumented user account can be easily accessed, opening the drive's file system. Read more...

CERT warns of SSH vulnerability

Thu, 18 Sep 2003 01:59:58 +0000

The CERT Coordination Center at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh is warning users about a serious security vulnerability in the OpenSSH (Secure Shell) that could enable a remote attacker to run malicious code or launch... Read more...

CERT, Adobe Warn of Flaw in PDF File Readers

Fri, 20 Jun 2003 09:43:43 +0000

Nearly a week after information on the problem was leaked on the Internet, Adobe Systems Inc. and CERT on Wednesday put out statements warning of a vulnerability in several software packages used to read Adobe... Read more...

Orange SPV MS smartphone cert security cracked

Tue, 14 Jan 2003 19:04:46 +0000

One person I know has one of these, and was rather peeved that he could NOT run "his own" apps on this beast, but now, according to sites The Register and MoDaCo, some clever fellows... Read more...

CERT warning: Oldest IM tricks work best

Wed, 20 Mar 2002 16:51:04 +0000

Security experts have warned that a wave of hack attacks is striking tens of thousands of PCs via instant messenger (IM) or Internet Relay Chat (IRC) clients, using nothing more high-tech than old-fashioned social engineering.... Read more...

DoS attacks getting scary, CERT warns

Tue, 23 Oct 2001 02:28:34 +0000

Windows users and Internet routing equipment are the latest pawns of malicious intruders intent on launching denial of service attacks online, an expert from Carnegie Mellon's CERT Coordination Center warned network operators here Monday. Attackers... Read more...

CERT logs 60 per cent leap in software bug reports

Tue, 16 Oct 2001 10:04:33 +0000

International network security watchdog CERT today released statistics showing it has handled more than 34,700 reports of vulnerable software in the first three quarters of this year. The 34,754 incidents reported to the... Read more...