Severity: High Summary: These vulnerabilities affect: Most current versions of Windows and Silverlight 5 (For PC and Mac) How an attacker exploits them: Multiple vectors of attack, including luring users to malicious web content or running specially crafted programs Impact: In the worst case, an attacker can gain complete control of your Windows computer. What to do: … [Read more...]
Silverlight and Windows Kernel-Mode Driver Patches
Severity: High Summary: These vulnerabilities affect: Most current versions of Windows and Silverlight 5 (For PC and Mac) How an attacker exploits them: Multiple vectors of attack, including luring users to malicious web content or running specially crafted programs Impact: In the worst case, an attacker can gain complete control of your Windows computer. What to do: … [Read more...]
Windows Updates Fix a Wide Range of Security Vulnerabilities
Severity: High Summary: These vulnerabilities affect: All current versions of Windows and some of the components that ship with it (such as DirectShow and the .NET Framework) How an attacker exploits them: Multiple vectors of attack, including sending specially crafted packets, luring users to view malicious media or email, and so on Impact: In the worst case, an attacker … [Read more...]
Windows Updates Include .NET and MSXML Fixes
Severity: High Summary: These vulnerabilities affect: All current versions of Windows and components that often ship with it (like XML Core Services and the .NET Framework). Some vulnerable components also affect Office and Server Software products. How an attacker exploits them: Multiple vectors of attack, including sending malicious print jobs to luring victims to … [Read more...]
Three Critical Windows and .NET Bulletins
Severity: High Summary: These vulnerabilities affect: All current versions of Windows and the .NET Framework How an attacker exploits them: Multiple vectors of attack, including enticing users to view malicious fonts or to open specially crafted Briefcase folders Impact: In the worst case, an attacker can gain complete control of your Windows computer What to do: Install … [Read more...]