Posted on 06/16/2015 3:18:15 PM PDT by TurboZamboni
It wouldn't make a difference in the case of this hack.
The Chinese corporation Foxconn had digital certificates stolen...presumably. The Duqu 2.0 software nasty was signed using legit digital certificates issued to Foxconn, whose customers include Microsoft, Dell, Google, BlackBerry, Amazon, Apple, and Sony.
Thus, the operating system will happily load and run the Foxconn-signed Duqu 2.0's 64-bit kernel-level driver without setting off any alarms.
Tech Ping
TY for the Ping
As to the OP, Kaspersky was in the early days doing its own hacking, till it was found out.
As for them being hacked, shrugs, it is why I went to linux( Not a coder)
And then to Pi (still not a coder but this tiny board is doing all I need it for ;-) )
Thanks for the link, relatives use windows so I’ll send them the link. A.ways battling viruses with windows it seems. Glas I use Linux now. There was a time awhile back in windows where it seemed like every 10th time or so. You’d go to a normal looking link titled something like dog species or something, and you’d get there only to be immediately shot over to a virus infection site. It was a pain. But that does seem to have slowed down a lot now though.
Anyways. Folks “may want to look into” something like rollback rx for windows if that is their main operating system. It really is system restore on steroids, and does a far far better restore tha system restore does. Check out the comparisons on their site. I used it back whe I ran windows, saved my bacon a ton of times, but beware, it does a.ter the bios, to allow the menu at startup incase your computer absolutely can not start up,, so decide if that is OK or not
Would it be possible to get a list of these, Vulnerabilities that were not defined by the user’s personal decisions or actions rather than the Linux OS it’s self?
“exploited security flaws in MICROSOFT SOFTWARE INSTALLER files”
You would think a security company would know better than to open suspicious Word documents. This has nothing to do with the operating system. PEOPLE are the weakest security link in EVERY organization. Linux is consistently the first OS hacked in Black Hat events.
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