So the latest news is, don’t open any .ppt files if you aren’t entirely sure where they came from as there is a Microsoft Zero Day vulnerability in OLE (Object Linking and Embedding) handling in Microsoft Office that is currently being exploited in the wild by malicious Powerpoint slide decks. Not that anyone reading this […]
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Microsoft Confirms Internet Explorer 0-Day
So during the past weekend, Microsoft confirmed an Internet Explorer 0-day that is actually being used in targeted online attacks. Vulnerability in Internet Explorer Could Allow Remote Code Execution It will be interesting to see if they push an out of band patch for this one or just wait for the next Patch Tuesday. It’s […]
Microsoft Rushes Out ‘Fix It’ For Internet Explorer 0-day Exploit
Pretty unusual for Microsoft but they’ve rushed out a fast fix for a 0-day Internet Explorer vulnerability which allows remote code execution and malware dropping. It doesn’t effect the latest version of Internet Explorer (9) but it effects all the common previous versions (6, 7 & 8) – which still accounts for the majority of […]
Microsoft Patches Critical Security Vulnerabilities In Windows, Office, IE, Exchange & SQL Server
Another huge raft of critical fixes has been pushed out by Microsoft across almost their entire range of products, including client and server side software and the Windows OS itself. It’s been a while since I’ve seen such a huge variety of security issues in one update including 5 critical vulnerabilities. If you are running […]
Microsoft Enhanced Mitigation Evaluation Toolkit (EMET) 3rd Party GUI
We published an article about Microsoft Enhanced Mitigation Evaluation Toolkit (EMET) when it came out back in June 2011. The Native GUI for EMET is in .NET and there are some situations or restricted environments where you may be unable to install .NET or just simple don’t want to use it. This is where this […]
Windows XML Core Services Exploit Attacked In The Wild – CVE-2012-1889
Oh look, another serious flaw in Windows – and this one is really bad because it can be exploited directly in Internet Explorer. And even worse than that, this vulnerability is actually being exploited in the wild by cybercriminals – this shows it’s no longer a theoretical attack. Plus of course the fact, it’s actually […]
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