{"id":933,"date":"2014-11-04T06:22:46","date_gmt":"2014-11-04T06:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qbytes.cloud\/?p=933"},"modified":"2014-11-04T06:22:46","modified_gmt":"2014-11-04T06:22:46","slug":"sandworm-vulnerability-affects-microsoft-operating-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qbytes.cloud\/index.php\/2014\/11\/04\/sandworm-vulnerability-affects-microsoft-operating-systems\/","title":{"rendered":"Sandworm Vulnerability Affects All Microsoft Operating Systems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, October 14, 2014, iSIGHT Partners and Microsoft announced a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.isightpartners.com\/2014\/10\/cve-2014-4114\/\">Zero-Day vulnerability named \u201cSandworm\u201d<\/a> found in all versions of Microsoft Windows and Windows Server 2008 and 2012.<\/p>\n<p>The vulnerability has been exploited in a small number of cyberespionage attacks against NATO, energy companies, a US academic organization and many others. Microsoft has since created a patch and released it as one of their security updates (CVE-2014-4114.).<\/p>\n<p>If you\u00a0have enabled automatic updating, the Microsoft security update will be downloaded and installed automatically. If you have not, <strong>it is critical that you run the security update from Microsoft, as well as all other important security updates through the Windows Updater immediately<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>If you would like to learn more about the Sandworm vulnerability, in-depth information can be found on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.isightpartners.com\/2014\/10\/cve-2014-4114\/\">iSIGHT Partners blog<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/security\/MS14-060\">Microsoft\u2019s Security TechCenter<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, October 14, 2014, iSIGHT Partners and Microsoft announced a Zero-Day vulnerability named \u201cSandworm\u201d found in all versions of Microsoft Windows and Windows Server 2008 and 2012. The vulnerability has been exploited in a small number of cyberespionage attacks against NATO, energy companies, a US academic organization and many others. Microsoft has since created &#8230; <a title=\"Sandworm Vulnerability Affects All Microsoft Operating Systems\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.qbytes.cloud\/index.php\/2014\/11\/04\/sandworm-vulnerability-affects-microsoft-operating-systems\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Sandworm Vulnerability Affects All Microsoft Operating Systems\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102,127],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security","category-winserv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qbytes.cloud\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qbytes.cloud\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qbytes.cloud\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qbytes.cloud\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qbytes.cloud\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.qbytes.cloud\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qbytes.cloud\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qbytes.cloud\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qbytes.cloud\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}