ISC StormCast for Tuesday, April 10th 2012...
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View ArticleNot your Parent's Wireless Threat, (Mon, Apr 9th)
Back in the good old days, wireless threats could be summarized in security your 802.11x access point by picking a strong passphrase and do not connect to evil unknown access points. I am not sure if...
View ArticleWindows Vista RIP, (Tue, Apr 10th)
Microsoft Windows Vista was your full name. Internally you identified yourself as windows 6.0. Most would call you simply Vista. You were never liked all that much. In part this was due to your...
View ArticleAdobe April 2012 Black Tuesday Update, (Tue, Apr 10th)
Adobe released its Black Tuesday bulletin too: apsb12-08.html announcing updates of Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat to versions 9.5.1 and 10.1.3. They're fixing 4 vulnerabilities: CVE-2012-0774: integer...
View ArticleSAMBA "root" credential remote code execution., (Tue, Apr 10th)
Samba - a Windows SMB/CIFS fileserver for UNIX seems to have a serious security vulnerability that samba versions 3.6.3 and all versions prior to it have a vulnerability that allows remote code...
View ArticleMicrosoft April 2012 Black Tuesday Update - Overview, (Tue, Apr 10th)
Overview of the April 2012 Microsoft patches and their status. # Affected Contra Indications - KB Known Exploits Microsoft rating(**) ISC rating(*) clients servers MS12-023 Cumulative update for...
View ArticleISC StormCast for Wednesday, April 11th 2012...
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View ArticleChallenge: What can you do with funky directory names?, (Wed, Apr 11th)
Good day readers! I've been playing around with creating unusual file names for a while. (http://vimeo.com/9484706 , http://pauldotcom.com/2011/12/looking-for-stealth-ads-stream.html) For example, did...
View ArticleHP ProCurve 5400 zl Switch, Flash Cards Infected with Malware, (Thu, Apr 12th)
HP ProCurve 5400 zl Switch, Flash Cards Infected with Malware HP has released a security bulletin (CVE-2012-0133) indicating that a [...] vulnerability has been identified with certain HP ProCurve 5400...
View ArticleISC StormCast for Thursday, April 12th 2012...
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View Articlewicd Privilege Escalation 0day Exploit, (Thu, Apr 12th)
A vulnerability was found in the current Backtrack 5 R2 version of the Wicd ( Wireless Interface Connection Daemon) software, where several design flaws have been found culminating in privilege...
View ArticleApple Java Updates for Mac OS X, (Thu, Apr 12th)
This Java security update removes the most common variants of the Flashback malware. Java for OS X Lion 2012-003 delivers Java SE 6 version 1.6.0_31 and supersedes all previous versions of Java for OS...
View ArticleVMware ESX/ESXi privilege escalation vuln. advisory:...
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View ArticleISC StormCast for Friday, April 13th 2012...
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View ArticleOracle CPU Patches announced for Apr 17, (Fri, Apr 13th)
Oracle have released their announcement for the April 2012 Critical Patch Update, to be issued next Tuesday (Apr 17). Several of the patch descriptions in the announcement are accompanied by the...
View ArticleISC Feature of the Week: Get to know the Handlers, (Fri, Apr 13th)
Overview All of the Internet Storm Center's active handlers are listed on https://isc.sans.edu/handler_list.html. Click a name to expand and see the handler's details. Click if you are Interested in...
View ArticleAnti-virus scanning exclusions, (Fri, Apr 13th)
Reader Josh writes in with a good question: How does everyone deal with software whose vendor requires that the application and its install directories be excluded completely from Anti-Virus (AV)...
View ArticleFlashback Trojan Removal Tool Released, (Sat, Apr 14th)
Earlier in the week Apple released a Java update which included software to remove the Flashback Trojan from OSXLion machines running Java. The Flashback Trojan removal tool is now also available for...
View Article.Net update affects printing from some applications, (Sun, Apr 15th)
We have received comments from our readers that the most recent Microsoft .Net framework update may have affected printing from some applications. TurboTax has released an update to address this issue...
View ArticleISC StormCast for Sunday, April 15th 2012...
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