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Windows 8.x and Server 2012 Suffer From Local EoP Vulnerability

September 10, 2014 By Corey Nachreiner

Severity: Medium Summary: These vulnerabilities affect: Windows 8.x, Server 2012, and RT How an attacker exploits it: By running a specially crafted application Impact: A local low privileged attacker can gain SYSTEM privileges on your Windows computers What to do: Deploy the appropriate update at your convenience, or let Windows Automatic Update do it for … [Read more...]

Microsoft Black Tuesday: Patch Windows Kernel-mode Driver and .NET First

July 9, 2013 By Corey Nachreiner

Microsoft's July Patch Day is live and ready for download, so go grab those updates. I recommend you work on the Windows Kernel-mode driver and .NET one's first. According to their summary post, Microsoft released seven security bulletins today, six of which they rate as Critical. The bulletins include updates to fix 36 vulnerabilities in many popular Microsoft products, … [Read more...]

Windows Updates Fix Critical RDC Flaw, and More

April 9, 2013 By Corey Nachreiner

Severity: High Summary: These vulnerabilities affect: All current versions of Windows and some of the components that ship with it How an attacker exploits them: Multiple vectors of attack, including luring users to web sites with malicious code or sending specially crafted network packets Impact: In the worst case, an attacker can gain complete control of your Windows … [Read more...]

Windows Updates Fix Critical RDC Flaw, and More

April 9, 2013 By Corey Nachreiner

Severity: High Summary: These vulnerabilities affect: All current versions of Windows and some of the components that ship with it How an attacker exploits them: Multiple vectors of attack, including luring users to web sites with malicious code or sending specially crafted network packets Impact: In the worst case, an attacker can gain complete control of your Windows … [Read more...]

Microsoft Black Tuesday: Security Flaws in a Menagerie of Products

March 12, 2013 By Corey Nachreiner

Though today's Patch Day might seem pretty average as far as the number of security bulletins released, it does cover a rather eclectic range of Microsoft products. In fact, a few of the updates affect Mac users as well, and one is even exclusive to Mac. During today's Patch Day, Microsoft released seven security bulletins fixing  20 vulnerabilities in the following … [Read more...]

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