This past Thursday (3/18/10) Microsoft announced that it will be dropping the hardware acceleration requirement for using the “XP Mode” feature on Windows 7. XP Mode allows a user to run software which is not Windows 7 compatible in a virtualized instance of Windows XP on the same box. Previously, to use this feature in [...]
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Vulnerability Roundup
March 15th, 2010
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Well, it isn’t Patch Tuesday yet, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t Microsoft news. A new 0-day has been found which exploits the help system in IE and older versions of windows (2000, XP, 2003). I’ve included a few links with information about the vulnerability and mitigation steps. It appears a patch for this (and [...]
Vulnerability Roundup
February 25th, 2010
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Another week, another Adobe security problem, this time in Adobe’s Download Manager. The Adobe Download Manager (DLM) used to download updates from Adobe’s site, but Aviv Raff discovered a vulnerability which would force the Download Manager to download a file of an attacker’s choosing. DLM is supposed to remove itself from a system after a [...]
Vulnerability Roundup
February 17th, 2010
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While they were absent from last week’s roundup, Adobe has returned with advisories in 3 of their products, not surprisingly Flash and Reader, and also BlazeDS which is included in some of their server offerings. The Flash and Reader vulnerabilities share a CVE (CVE-2010-0186) which can allow an attacker to subvert domain sandboxing. The Reader [...]
Vulnerability Roundup
February 10th, 2010
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So last month’s Patch Tuesday was pretty quiet on the Microsoft front. Not so lucky this month with a total of 13 bulletins, 5 critical, 7 important. And one for MS Paint. That’s right, Paint. Looks like I’ll have to put down the little spray paint tool for a bit. The others include patches for [...]
Vulnerability Roundup
January 27th, 2010
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Well, it looks like all the big boys are here. Microsoft, Google, Adobe, Cisco, and ISC’s BIND all make this week’s roundup. As mentioned in last week’s roundup, Microsoft released an out-of-band update for vulnerabilities related to the attacks on Google, Adobe and others. Speaking of Google and Adobe, Chrome 4 Stable has been released, [...]
Vulnerability Roundup
January 13th, 2010
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Here are some of the more interesting vulnerabilities or patches from this week. As this is our first roundup, some of these are a little older than a week, but noteworthy nonetheless. This week we have a light Patch Tuesday from Microsoft, but Adobe picks up the slack with patches for a server product, Acrobat [...]
