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Microsoft Patch Tuesday – December 2012

12

Dec

2012

Hello, welcome to this month’s blog on the Microsoft patch release. This month the vendor is releasing seven bulletins covering a total of 12 vulnerabilities. Ten of this month’s issues are rated ‘Critical’.As always, customers are advised to follow these security best practices: Install vendor patches as soon as they are available. Run all software […]

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Multiple Zero-Day POC Exploits Threaten Oracle MySQL Server

06

Dec

2012

In the last month of the year, MySQL has been flooded by a set of zero-day exploits. This set was revealed by Kingcope and he has published proof-of-concept (POCs) for all these vulnerabilities.The newly discovered set of 0-days affects MySQL in multiple ways, such as application crash/denial of service, privilege escalation, authentication bypass, remote root […]

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Taidoor Update: Taidoor Gang Tags Its Victims

04

Dec

2012

We’ve been seeing an increase in Taidoor downloaders in the wild, but instead of embedding the backdoor in email attachments, the current trend in Taidoor-related attacks is to include an attachment with a Taidoor-downloading Trojan.Based on the sample set we gathered, it appears this type of technique has only been used this year. For the […]

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