Severity: High Summary: These vulnerabilities affect: All current versions of Windows (and related components like XML Core Services) How an attacker exploits them: Multiple vectors of attack, including enticing you to malicious web sites, or into interacting with malicious documents or images. Impact: In the worst case, an attacker can gain complete control of your Windows … [Read more...]
Windows Updates Fix GDI+, RDP, and TCP Vulnerabilities
Severity: High Summary: These vulnerabilities affect: All current versions of Windows (and related components like XML Core Services) How an attacker exploits them: Multiple vectors of attack, including enticing you to malicious web sites, or into interacting with malicious documents or images. Impact: In the worst case, an attacker can gain complete control of your Windows … [Read more...]
Four Windows Bulletins: Critical TCP/IP Vulnerability Allows Remote Root
Bulletins Affect TCP/IP, Active Directory, Windows Mail, and More Severity: High Summary: These vulnerabilities affect: All current versions of Windows and components that ship with it (though most only affect more recent versions of Windows) How an attacker exploits them: Multiple vectors of attack including sending specially crafted packets, or enticing users into opening … [Read more...]
Microsoft Black Tuesday: Windows Bulletins Primarily Affect Recent Versions
As expected, today's Patch Day has a Windows theme, since all of Microsoft's security bulletins affect Windows or components that ship with it. More importantly, most of the updates primarily affect modern versions of Windows, such as Windows Vista, 7, or Server 2008; only one of the Important bulletins affect older versions of Windows. A remote code execution flaw in the … [Read more...]
Six Windows Bulletins Fix Important and Moderate Flaws
Bulletins Affect TCP/IP Stack, Data Access Components, the Kernel, and More Severity: Medium Summary: These vulnerabilities affect: All current versions of Windows and components that ship with it How an attacker exploits them: Multiple vectors of attack, including sending specially crafted network packets, enticing your users to open malicious files, or running malicious … [Read more...]
