There seems to be a fairly serious attack being exploited in the wild that targets vulnerable ASP.Net web applications, so far there is a temporary fix but no official announcement on when a patch will be issued. The next scheduled patches should be pushed out on October 12th. If you had set up your server […]
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Microsoft Fixes SSL Spoofing Renegotiation Bug
Well this flaw was first publicized in November last year, it was successfully used against Twitter in the same month. IETF completed the SSL vulnerability fix in January this year and now in August – 10 months after the original release of the flaw – Microsoft has stepped up and fixed it. The fix is […]
Windows Help Vulnerability Exploited In The Wild
[ad] So the other big news this week apart from the AT&T iPad/iPhone 4 screw-up is that a recently announced critical vulnerability in Windows XP is being exploited in the wild. It was disclosed fairly recently and is a vulnerability in the Windows XP help system disclosed by Tavis Ormandy, a Google researcher who has […]
Microsoft Installs Firefox Add-on Without Asking During Recent Patch Tuesday
It’s not the first time Microsoft has had some issues with Firefox and add-ons they installed on users machines through Windows Update. Back in October of last year, Mozilla forcefully disabled a .NET add-on as it was causing ‘instability’ rather a security/vulnerability issue. I did notice the issue with my own Firefox and also noticed […]
Microsoft Patches At Least 34 Bugs Including Pwn2Own Vulnerability
What a massive mother-load of patches Microsoft has unleashed on this month patching more than 34 security vulnerabilities including the fairly high profile vulnerability exploited at the Pwn2Own contest earlier this year in April. Good news as long as all the average Internet users actually use Windows Update and install the latest patches, which somehow […]