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Trio of Office Updates Fix SharePoint Flaw & ASLR Bypass

December 10, 2013 By Corey Nachreiner

Severity: High Summary: These vulnerabilities affect: Microsoft Office and related products, including SharePoint How an attacker exploits them: Varies. Typically by enticing users to visit malicious web content or open Office documents Impact: Many. In the worst case, an attacker can gain complete control of your Windows computer What to do: Install the appropriate … [Read more...]

Sharepoint, Excel, and Word Security Updates

October 8, 2013 By Corey Nachreiner

Severity: High Summary: These vulnerabilities affect: Microsoft Office related products, including SharePoint, Word, and Excel How an attacker exploits them: Varies. Typically by enticing users to open or interact with maliciously crafted Office documents Impact: Many. In the worst case, an attacker can gain complete control of your Windows computer What to do: Install the … [Read more...]

Office Updates Fix SharePoint, Outlook, Word, and More

September 10, 2013 By Corey Nachreiner

Severity: High Summary: These vulnerabilities affect: Microsoft Office related products, including SharePoint, Outlook, Word, Excel, Access, FrontPage and other components How an attacker exploits them: Varies. Typically by enticing users to open or interact with maliciously crafted Office documents Impact: Many. In the worst case, an attacker can gain complete control of … [Read more...]

Blackhat 2013 – WSWiR Episode 72

August 2, 2013 By Corey Nachreiner

Details on Femtocell hacking, Mactans, and SCADA Honeypots This is the week of the Blackhat and Defcon security conferences; two of the biggest security research conferences of the year. So rather than quickly summarize InfoSec news—like I do most weeks—I'll share details about three of my favorite talks from this year's Blackhat show (Defcon is going on now). Two of my … [Read more...]

WatchGuard Security Week in Review: Episode 58 – Darkleech Apache Attack

April 5, 2013 By Corey Nachreiner

Telephony DoS, OpFreeKorea, and Darkleech What do zombie video games, North Korea, and emergency telephone systems have in common? They've all been compromised by cyber attackers this week. If you're too busy dousing IT fires to keep up with InfoSec news on your own, give our weekly security news summary a try. In this short video, I quickly highlight the biggest security … [Read more...]

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