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 | from Tony Bradley, CISSP Last week was highlighted primarily by two main events. One was trying to scramble to apply the patch released by Microsoft for MS05-039 in response to the Zotob worm that exploits the associated vulnerability. The other was reacting to a zero day exploit impacting the Internet Explorer web browser. Aside from reading about vulnerabilities and downloading patches, you can also check out my review of the book Rootkits: Subverting The Windows Kernel by Greg Hoglund and Jamie Butler. |
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| Internet Explorer Hit With Zero Day Exploit The world is still scrambling to apply the patch for the plug-and-play vulnerability outlined in Critical Microsoft Security Bulletin MS05-039 and rebound from the Zotob worm which exploits that vulnerability, but it's not time to relax yet. On Thursday Secunia published a Security Advisory related to a zero day exploit...read more |
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| Book Review: Rootkits (Subverting The Windows Kernel) Almost 2 years ago I wrote Rootkits: They're Not Just For *Nix Anymore, pointing out that rootkits were an emerging tool becoming more prevalent in Windows attacks. Earlier this year, Microsoft warned of the growing threat of rootkits as well....read more | |||||||
| Highly Critical Secunia Advisories Below are links to the daily Secunia Security Advisories ranked as Highly Critical or above by Secunia. Tuesday was a particularly prolific day, but the two bigger ones to pay attention to from last week are 16466, related to a buffer overflow vulnerability in Adobe...read more | |||||||
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| Fixing Dropped WiFi Connections Wireless / Networking Guide, Bradley Mitchell, explains some common causes of dropped wireless network connections and provides advice on how to avoid them. |
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