http://praetorianprefect.com Information security, a little slower...a little deeper Thu, 19 Jan 2012 03:59:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2010/05/mays-patch-tuesday/ http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2010/05/mays-patch-tuesday/#comments Tue, 11 May 2010 22:46:23 +0000 MJP http://praetorianprefect.com/?p=3915 http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2010/05/mays-patch-tuesday/feed/ 1 http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2010/03/iepeers-a-new-internet-explorer-zero-day-vulnerability/ http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2010/03/iepeers-a-new-internet-explorer-zero-day-vulnerability/#comments Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:01:30 +0000 Prefect http://praetorianprefect.com/?p=3511 Microsoft's recent blog post for new security advisory 981374 referencing a new zero day vulnerability in Internet Explorer versions 6 and 7. New details have emerged since, and the exploit has moved from being what was described as part of "limited targeted attacks" to being widely accessible and available as a new module for the Metasploit framework.]]> http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2010/03/iepeers-a-new-internet-explorer-zero-day-vulnerability/feed/ 8 http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2010/03/3473/ http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2010/03/3473/#comments Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:38:40 +0000 MJP http://praetorianprefect.com/?p=3473 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.]]> http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2010/03/3473/feed/ 0 http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2010/03/press-f1-for-help-pwned/ http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2010/03/press-f1-for-help-pwned/#comments Tue, 02 Mar 2010 17:39:54 +0000 MJP http://praetorianprefect.com/?p=3444 http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2010/03/press-f1-for-help-pwned/feed/ 3 http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2010/02/microsofts-google-attack-patch/ http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2010/02/microsofts-google-attack-patch/#comments Fri, 26 Feb 2010 04:18:26 +0000 Prefect http://praetorianprefect.com/?p=3421 George V. Hulme shared the picture below from CNBC, perhaps the most amusing way seen thus far of describing the patch for the 'Aurora bug' that famously affected Google late last year.]]> http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2010/02/microsofts-google-attack-patch/feed/ 1 http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2010/02/februarys-patch-tuesday/ http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2010/02/februarys-patch-tuesday/#comments Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:56:29 +0000 MJP http://praetorianprefect.com/?p=3305 http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2010/02/februarys-patch-tuesday/feed/ 3 http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2010/01/the-aurora-ie-exploit-in-action/ http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2010/01/the-aurora-ie-exploit-in-action/#comments Sat, 16 Jan 2010 00:42:41 +0000 Prefect http://praetorianprefect.com/?p=3065 big news hit earlier this week, the attack vector that allowed bad actors presumably from China into the networks of Google, Juniper, Adobe, and some 30 other firms was an Internet Explorer zero day, a use after free vulnerability on an invalid pointer reference affecting IE 6, 7, and 8 but only used in IE 6 according to Microsoft.]]> http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2010/01/the-aurora-ie-exploit-in-action/feed/ 74 http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2009/12/regular-or-decaf-tool-launched-to-combat-cofee/ http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2009/12/regular-or-decaf-tool-launched-to-combat-cofee/#comments Tue, 15 Dec 2009 01:21:34 +0000 MJP http://praetorianprefect.com/?p=2250 http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2009/12/regular-or-decaf-tool-launched-to-combat-cofee/feed/ 8 http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2009/11/from-promiscuous-to-port-scanning-with-powershell/ http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2009/11/from-promiscuous-to-port-scanning-with-powershell/#comments Mon, 23 Nov 2009 19:04:15 +0000 MJP http://praetorianprefect.com/?p=1924 http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2009/11/from-promiscuous-to-port-scanning-with-powershell/feed/ 1 http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2009/11/more-cofee-please-on-second-thought/ http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2009/11/more-cofee-please-on-second-thought/#comments Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:24:49 +0000 MJP http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2009/11/more-cofee-please-on-second-thought/ http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2009/11/more-cofee-please-on-second-thought/feed/ 13 http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2009/10/server-2008-r2-active-directory-functional-levels/ http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2009/10/server-2008-r2-active-directory-functional-levels/#comments Tue, 06 Oct 2009 09:12:14 +0000 MJP http://praetorianprefect.com/?p=758 http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2009/10/server-2008-r2-active-directory-functional-levels/feed/ 8 http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2009/09/2008-server-to-the-core/ http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2009/09/2008-server-to-the-core/#comments Wed, 23 Sep 2009 21:47:06 +0000 MJP http://praetorianprefect.com/?p=398 http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2009/09/2008-server-to-the-core/feed/ 0 http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2009/09/whos-being-promiscuous-in-your-active-directory/ http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2009/09/whos-being-promiscuous-in-your-active-directory/#comments Tue, 15 Sep 2009 00:18:50 +0000 MJP http://praetorianprefect.com/?p=719 http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2009/09/whos-being-promiscuous-in-your-active-directory/feed/ 1 http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2009/07/microsoft-video-activex-control-vulnerability/ http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2009/07/microsoft-video-activex-control-vulnerability/#comments Wed, 08 Jul 2009 06:04:23 +0000 Prefect http://praetorianprefect.com/?p=319 http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2009/07/microsoft-video-activex-control-vulnerability/feed/ 2