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Category: Security

Direct-X Under Attack

Posted on May 29, 2009 By Michael Kavka No Comments on Direct-X Under Attack

It seems that a vulnerability in Direct X’s Direct Show subsystem is coming under attack. Now the vulnerability allows execution of code, but only as the logged on user, which means if you are smart, then the normal user account does not have admin rights, and code executed through this vulnerability won’t be able to…

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Computers, Security

2008 and Vista SP2 now available

Posted on May 27, 2009 By Michael Kavka No Comments on 2008 and Vista SP2 now available

So, after a long refreshing weekend, I”m back, and over the course of that weekend something interesting happened. Service Pack 2 for Server 2008 and Vista was officially released. Now you might say, “Its only a service pack, what is the big deal?” The truth is, especially in this day and age, any Service Pack…

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Computers, Security, Software

IIS 6.0 WebDAV Flaw Solutions

Posted on May 20, 2009 By Michael Kavka No Comments on IIS 6.0 WebDAV Flaw Solutions

IT World has a nice little article which gives some tools to help protect those running IIS 6.0 and earlier from the latest exploit. The fun thing is that they are both free tools from Microsoft that basically shut down the WebDAV protocol. Microsoft has acknowledged the problem, but has not said if or when…

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