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Cisco’s Talos team has announc hungary whatsapp data the creation of an open-source, free tool to protect Windows PC MBRs Record Protection from various types of malware. The tool, call MBRFilter, can run on both 32- and 64-bit Windows, and its source code is available on GitHub.
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MBR, in particular, starting with Windows 8, the company uses encryption for the OS bootloader, while the secure bootloader (Secure Boot) uses the Unifi Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) of modern BIOS versions. But this protection option is not suitable for earlier versions of Windows. And here the MBRFilter tool, implement as an OS driver, can help users. After installing this software, the possibility of modifying the MBR is allow only if Windows is start in “safe mode”.
A team of Record small and medium-sized bb tech companies Protection researchers from the University of California, Riverside and the State University of New York at Binghamton have discover a vulnerability au emai list in a component of the central processing unit (CPU) that could allow attackers to gain access to the computer and the information stor on it. The problem affects the branch priction module in Intel Haswell processors and the ASLR security mechanism.