{"id":90443,"date":"2016-04-25T15:13:12","date_gmt":"2016-04-25T13:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=90443"},"modified":"2016-04-25T15:14:00","modified_gmt":"2016-04-25T13:14:00","slug":"windows-10-has-a-very-serious-exploit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/90443-windows-10-has-a-very-serious-exploit","title":{"rendered":"Windows 10 has a very serious exploit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new exploit in Windows 10 could allow hackers and viruses to easily bypass your system&#8217;s safeguards.<\/p>\n<p>Windows previously used the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2012\/04\/19\/the-fourth-version-of-windows-8-revealed-enterprise\/\" target=\"_blank\">AppLocker<\/a><\/strong> feature that would let users blacklist or whitelist applications.<\/p>\n<p>Researcher Casey Smith <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/gist.github.com\/subTee\/24c7d8e1ff0f5602092f58cbb3f7d302\">discovered<\/a><\/strong> that you could get around Applocker if you instruct Regsvr32 to point to a remotely hosted file (such as a script), allowing your system to run whichever app you want.<\/p>\n<p>This change doesn&#8217;t reflect in the registry and doesn&#8217;t require any special administration privileges.<\/p>\n<p>Expect Windows to patch the exploit shortly, but the only known workaround at the moment is to tell Windows Firewall to block\u00a0Regsvr32 completely.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>More gaming news<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Games you can play this week \u2013 snipers and swords\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/90401-games-you-can-play-this-week-snipers-and-swords.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Games you can play this week \u2013 snipers and swords<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to eSports team banned for having pornographic sponsor\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/entertainment\/90397-esports-team-banned-for-having-pornographic-sponsor.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">eSports team banned for having pornographic sponsor<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to You can get free Wi-Fi on Freedom Day\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/broadband\/90403-you-can-get-free-wi-fi-on-freedom-day.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">You can get free Wi-Fi on Freedom Day<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new exploit in Windows 10 could allow hackers and viruses to easily bypass your system&#8217;s safeguards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":89191,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[31,1791,405,18261,13009],"class_list":["post-90443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-active","tag-exploit","tag-hacking","tag-virus","tag-windows-10"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90443"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90461,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90443\/revisions\/90461"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}