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Microsoft Zero Day OLE Vuln Being Exploited In Powerpoint

Last updated: September 9, 2015 | 1,468 views

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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Topic: Exploits/Vulnerabilities, Windows Hacking

Microsoft Confirms Internet Explorer 0-Day

Last updated: September 9, 2015 | 867 views

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 […]

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Topic: Exploits/Vulnerabilities, Windows Hacking

Microsoft Rushes Out ‘Fix It’ For Internet Explorer 0-day Exploit

Last updated: September 9, 2015 | 1,143 views

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 […]

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Topic: Exploits/Vulnerabilities, Windows Hacking

Microsoft Patches Critical Security Vulnerabilities In Windows, Office, IE, Exchange & SQL Server

Last updated: September 9, 2015 | 1,192 views

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 […]

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Topic: Countermeasures, Exploits/Vulnerabilities, Windows Hacking

Microsoft Enhanced Mitigation Evaluation Toolkit (EMET) 3rd Party GUI

Last updated: July 12, 2012 | 1,587 views

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 […]

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Topic: Countermeasures, Security Software, Windows Hacking

Windows XML Core Services Exploit Attacked In The Wild – CVE-2012-1889

Last updated: September 9, 2015 | 1,689 views

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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Topic: Exploits/Vulnerabilities, Windows Hacking