{"id":162964,"date":"2016-04-25T07:47:44","date_gmt":"2016-04-25T05:47:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=162964"},"modified":"2016-04-25T07:49:04","modified_gmt":"2016-04-25T05:49:04","slug":"watch-out-for-windows-applocker-security-flaw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/162964-watch-out-for-windows-applocker-security-flaw.html","title":{"rendered":"Watch out for Windows AppLocker security flaw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A\u00a0new vulnerability in Windows has resulted in business-focussed versions of the operating system being exploited through their AppLocker feature, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2016\/04\/25\/windows-applocker-exploit\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Engadget<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>AppLocker lets users\u00a0blacklist or whitelist apps, but\u00a0researcher Casey Smith discovered\u00a0a vulnerability that gets around this security barrier.<\/p>\n<p>If a user\u00a0instructs\u00a0Regsvr32 to point to a remotely-hosted file, they\u00a0can make a system run whichever app they\u00a0want &#8211; an entry point hackers could use.<\/p>\n<p>There isn&#8217;t a patch for the flaw yet, and Microsoft did not respond to questions from Engadget at the time of publication.<\/p>\n<p>Engadget said setting\u00a0Windows Firewall to block Regsvr32 may close the security hole until a patch is issued.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Windows<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/162254-warning-uninstall-apple-quicktime-for-windows-now.html\">Warning: Uninstall Apple QuickTime for Windows now<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/general\/161312-windows-blue-screen-of-death-gets-qr-codes.html\">Windows Blue Screen of Death gets QR codes<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new vulnerability in Windows has resulted in business-focussed versions of the operating system being exploited through their AppLocker feature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":127880,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,16],"tags":[36,36850,123,26970],"class_list":["post-162964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","category-software","tag-active","tag-applocker","tag-microsoft","tag-windows-10"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162964"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162964"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":162966,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162964\/revisions\/162966"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}