Articles tagged with: windows
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Thursday, 10 Nov, 2011
Microsoft released their November Patch Tuesday on the 8th November which also included a critical TCP/IP fix. The TCP/IP component affects Windows 7, Server 2008 and Vista. Microsoft said an attacker could use a specially crafted UDP data packet to trigger a crash and remotely execute code on a a targeted system.
Microsoft has fixed the flaw by altering the way Windows handles UDP packets. End users and admins are advised to make the bulletin a top priority for testing and deployment as soon as possible. Note: Patch Tuesday did not include a permanent patch in a recent
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Thursday, 10 Nov, 2011
Apple has updated vulnerabilities in Java for Mac OS X 10.6 and 10.7 systems, some of which could allow an attacker to execute code outside of the secure Java sandbox. Vulnerabilities in Shockwave and Java are becoming an increasing security issue for businesses. Most administrators fail to update these patches outside of Windows updates.
Java for OS X Lion Update 1 -
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1421
Java for Mac OS X 10.6 Update 6 -
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Thursday, 10 Nov, 2011
Critical vulnerabilities have been identified in Adobe Shockwave Player 11.6.1.629 and earlier versions on the Windows and Macintosh operating systems. These vulnerabilities could allow an attacker, who successfully exploits these vulnerabilities, to run malicious code on the
Microsoft issued an advisory this week on the
TrueType font-parsing vulnerability. The flaw affects every supported version of Windows including Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008. The vulnerability was found to spread
Windows Task Scheduler (AT.exe) is well known to us all, but the Stuxnet worm has introduced the Zlob variants and click-fraud Trojan Bamital which researchers have found are continuing to make use of the Windows Task Scheduler.
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Monday, 31 Oct, 2011
Latest News From IT Security World
By Schuyler Dorsey, eLearnSecurity i ID Theft Protect
As usual specialists from companies eLearn Security and ID Theft protect will share with us latest news from IT
security world. Read it to up-date yourself.
Secure Log Server With
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Thursday, 6 Oct, 2011
Microsoft have released their "Patch Tuesday" update for October 11th which includes a critical flaw that could give attackers the ability to remotely spread a virus through compromised Internet Explorer and Windows users. The security update will
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Wednesday, 28 Sep, 2011
In Brief
By Schuyler Dorsey, eLearnSecurity i ID Theft Protect
As usual specialists from companies eLearn Security and ID Theft protect will share with us latest news from IT security world. Read it to up-date yourself.
Hacking Tools on iOS
By Alexandre Lacan
One day
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Friday, 23 Sep, 2011
CONTENT:
Cracking Java Applications Using AOP exploits (part 1)
By Daniel Drozdzewski
Aspect Oriented Programming is a paradigm that aims to modularise software further by the separation of crosscutting concerns. Daniel will show us the basics of AOP and a simple, yet powerful
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Wednesday, 21 Sep, 2011
Microsoft has re-released a
security update for Windows XP and Server 2003 after it has realized that the initial one - released last Tuesday in order to add six more DigiNotar root
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Wednesday, 14 Sep, 2011
Microsoft has released 15 patches for vulnerabilities affecting the Microsoft Server Software and Windows Microsoft office software. The Vulnerabilities in WINS that allows elevation of privilege, vulnerability in windows components that allows Remote code execution, and vulnerabilities
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Thursday, 8 Sep, 2011
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DLL Injection is a popular technique used by attackers to inject an executable file in order to perform a controlled code execution. Several methods for preventing this has been developed by Operating System’s creators, but (as
