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Microsoft Patch Tuesday – September 2011

14

Sep

2011

Hello and welcome to this month’s blog regarding the Microsoft patch release. This is a smaller month in terms of patches-the vendor has released five bulletins covering a total of 15 vulnerabilities. This month, all of the issues are rated “Important” and they affect Windows, Office, Excel, and SharePoint. Of note this month are the […]

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Force “ASLR” on Shell Extensions

10

Aug

2011

I’ve written about Shell Extension without ASLR support before. Not only do they open up explorer.exe to ROP attacks, but other applications too, like Adobe Reader and Microsoft Office. You could use EMET to force ASLR on these DLLs, assuming you know which applications load shell extensions. Because shell extensions are not only loaded into […]

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The truth behind the Shady RAT

05

Aug

2011

McAfee published an interesting report yesterday about what they called Operation Shady RAT, focusing on a series of what some may call “advance persistent threat” attacks. The attacks were dubbed in some quarters as “one of the largest series of cyber attacks ever.” While quite a bit of data was presented regarding the potential scale […]

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