After a busy April patch month, May’s patch Tuesday proves to be much quieter with two updates released by Microsoft. Although deemed critical, read the details below to see how your environment may or may not be affected. Microsoft Updates ID: MS10-030 Title: Vulnerability in Outlook Express and Windows Mail Could Allow Remote Code Execution [...]
It is a common task for an investigator to boot a machine using bootable media in the form of DVD or USB and there are countless options available. This tutorial is not intended to replace your favorite Helix CD or preferred method, but you may find this analysis interesting if you are a Windows expert performing a forensics analysis.
A blog post on the MSRC web site warned of a new zero-day in Internet Explorer versions 6 and 7 running on Windows XP, Windows 2000, or Windows 2003. The post references Security Advisory (981374), and at this time there aren’t many details about the vulnerability other than what MS has stated in the advisory.
Today is patch Tuesday for March 2010, and Microsoft has released two security bulletins for this round of updates, neither of which are deemed critical. The second bulletin addresses seven different vulnerabilities across various versions of Microsoft Office Excel.
Microsoft published security advisory 981169 yesterday in response to the zero day vulnerability reported a few days prior. The vulnerability is in the help system and can be triggered by luring an Internet Explorer user into pressing the F1 key. Windows 2000, Windows XP SP2 & SP3, and Windows 2003 SP2 with Internet Explorer 7 [...]
Today is patch Tuesday for February 2010, and it marks a fairly busy patch cycle for Microsoft, who released thirteen updates today. In late January, there was an out-of-band release for two critical patches, in response to the high profile issue around the Internet Explorer Aurora exploit. This makes a total of fifteen total patches between since January’s patch Tuesday.
Microsoft has published the advanced notification for an unscheduled patch update release to occur tomorrow, outside of the normal patch Tuesday cycle. The update is for an Internet Explorer vulnerability reported to be a vector for the Aurora exploit which was used to attack Google and several other companies. The last time Microsoft released an [...]
We have previously posted instructions for users to disable JavaScript, giving them the option to enable it only when necessary. However, if you have made the decision to make this change across your enterprise or to a specific user base, this manual process is not practical. Therefore, a Group Policy Object is best to handle the task at hand.
We begin a new year and arrive at the first patch Tuesday of the decade. The news and spread of malware related to Adobe Reader continues to gain momentum and the information security community believes that this year will produce more exploits using Reader. I will include both the Microsoft and Adobe updates in these [...]
Microsoft announced in a blog post that the SMB bug which can crash Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2 will not be patched in January’s patch Tuesday. We have shown how this bug can cause a severe halt to the OS, however, Microsoft stated that they “are not aware of any active attacks using the [...]
