{"id":33792,"date":"2011-09-13T10:31:30","date_gmt":"2011-09-13T08:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=33792"},"modified":"2011-09-13T10:32:31","modified_gmt":"2011-09-13T08:32:31","slug":"fake-windows-updates-possible-%e2%80%93-comodohacker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/33792-fake-windows-updates-possible-%e2%80%93-comodohacker.html","title":{"rendered":"Fake Windows updates possible \u2013 Comodohacker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a message posted on PasteBin last week, the hacker who rose to fame after he claimed responsibility for the attacks on Certificate Authority <a title=\"DigiNotar\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/361748-DigiNotar\">DigiNotar <\/a>claims he can exploit the Windows update service.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m able to issue Windows update&#8211;<a title=\"Microsoft\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/211580-Microsoft\">Microsoft&#8217;s<\/a> statement about Windows Update and that I can&#8217;t issue such update is totally false,&#8221; Comodohacker wrote in the PasteBin file. This was in reply to an earlier statement by Microsoft engineer John Hess who wrote, \u201cAttackers are not able to leverage a fraudulent Windows Update certificate to install malware via the Windows Update servers. Also, Windows Update itself is not at risk, even to an attacker with a fraudulent certificate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Comodohacker continued his PasteBin tirade saying, &#8220;I already reversed ENTIRE Windows update protocol, how it reads XMLs via SSL which includes URL, KB no, SHA-1 hash of file for each update, how it verifies that downloaded file is signed using WinVerifyTrust API, and &#8230; Simply I can issue updates via Windows update! You see? I&#8217;m so smart, sharp, dangerous, powerful, etc. huh?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>If the hacker\u2019s claims are true, he would be able to deliver malware to any system running the Windows update service.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story over at: <a title=\"Cnet news site\" href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-1009_3-20104883-83\/comodohacker-i-can-issue-fake-windows-updates\">Cnet<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DigiNotar hacker now claims he can now exploit the Windows update service<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":26925,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[4512,4510,4682,123],"class_list":["post-33792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-comodohacker","tag-diginotar","tag-john-hess","tag-microsoft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33792"}],"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\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33792\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}