CSOonline

How to audit Windows Task Scheduler for cyber-attack activity

Recently Google announced two zero-days that impacted both the Chrome browser and Windows 7 operating system. Google released an update to Chrome to protect users from the issue, and Microsoft patched ...
Computerworld

Reviewing the Windows Scheduler with TaskSchedulerView from Nir Sofer

In Windows XP the Task Scheduler was easy to deal with. Anyone could look at it (Control Panel -> Scheduled Tasks) and easily understand which tasks were scheduled and when they ran. Windows 7 ...
Bleeping Computer

Windows Task Scheduler Zero Day Exploited by Malware

Malware developers have started to use the zero-day exploit for Task Scheduler component in Windows, two days after proof-of-concept code for the vulnerability appeared online. A security researcher ...
Threat Post

Microsoft Windows Zero-Day Found in Task Scheduler

A Windows task scheduler API function does not check permissions – so any potential local bad actor can alter them to gain elevated privileges. A zero-day flaw recently disclosed in Microsoft’s ...
Ars Technica

Windows 7: Task Scheduler, User Account, and Network Share Question

I have a Linux file server running a samba file share. I created a special account on the linux server so that I could access the network file shares from my windows computers - let's refer to this ...
Neowin

Microsoft's Windows task scheduler is vulnerable to hackers, no fix yet

Microsoft's Windows task scheduler is vulnerable to hackers, no fix yet The US-CERT has confirmed the existence of a vulnerability in the Microsoft Windows task scheduler that could allow a local user ...
Ars Technica

Windows task scheduler hates documents?

It's a little early in the morning for this, but Windows Task Scheduler (W2K Server, SP4) is driving me bonkers.<BR><BR>We're trying to get a FileMaker database to start up every night so that it can ...