Infosec Practitioner
Yep, that’s right, its that time of month where Microsoft’s servers get slammed. Its patch week. This month some patches for holes that have Zero Day Exploits out for them already. Included in this is the Active X Video Hole, The Direct X Quicktime Hole, and the Open Type Font hole. The first two I…
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…
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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