Are you ready for a long week of patching? Microsoft's August Patch Day is live, with thirteen security bulletins that fix 22 security vulnerabilities in their popular software packages. The flaws affect many Microsoft products, including: Windows and its many components (like DNS server) Internet Explorer Visio the .NET Framework and Visual Studio. Microsoft only rates … [Read more...]
Adobe Partially Corrects Flash Zero Day in Reader and Acrobat
Severity: High 22 April, 2011 Summary: These vulnerabilities affects: Recent versions of Adobe Reader, and Acrobat How an attacker exploits it: In various ways, but most commonly by enticing your users into opening a Word or Excel document containing malicious Flash Impact: In the worst case, an attacker can execute code on your computer, potentially gaining control of … [Read more...]
Another Month, Another Zero Day Flash Vulnerability
According to an Adobe security advisory, Flash Player suffers from a zero day vulnerability, which attackers are currently leveraging in the wild to execute malicious code on victim computers. It seems like just last month I described this exact same zero day Adobe Flash vulnerability.... oh, wait. That's because I did! Ok, fine. They aren't technically exactly the same, but … [Read more...]
Adobe Patches Zero Day in Flash Player, Reader, and Acrobat
Severity: High 21 March, 2011 Summary: These vulnerabilities affects: Recent versions of Adobe Reader, Acrobat, and Flash Player How an attacker exploits it: In various ways, but most commonly by enticing your users into visiting a website containing malicious Flash or Reader content Impact: In the worst case, an attacker can execute code on your computer, potentially … [Read more...]
Companies targeted by zero day Adobe Flash vulnerability
[UPDATE] As mentioned at the end of my original post, I expect Adobe to release Flash and Acrobat updates sometime this week. However, Google Chrome users will get this Flash update early. If you use Chrome, Google and Adobe have already included the Flash fix in the latest Chrome release. In a recent security advisory and blog post, Adobe warned of a new zero day Flash … [Read more...]