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CVE-2012-0158 Exploit in the Wild

Apr

2012

Since last week, we have seen many specially crafted files exploiting CVE-2012-0158, a vulnerability in MSCOMCTL.OCX in Microsoft Office and some other Microsoft products. This exploit can be implemented in a variety of file formats, including RTF, Word, and Excel files. We have already found crafted RTF and Word files in the wild. In the […]

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Microsoft Releases Out of Band Update Before Year Ends

Dec

2011

Microsoft has released an advisory alerting its users about a critical vulnerability in ASP.NET (CVE-2011-3414). An attacker could potentially bring down a server (Denial of Service) with specially crafted requests. Given that all versions of ASP.NET are vulnerable, its exposure is pretty big. This advisory was in response to a public advisory presented in the […]

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Windows Security Praised

Aug

2011

Conventional wisdom has it that Windows and products from Microsoft are extremely unsafe, easy targets for hackers. That conventional wisdom is wrong, according to security firm Kaspersky Lab’s recent quarterly malware report, which found not a single Microsoft-related threat in the top ten. The Kapersky Lab quarterly report has this to say about Microsoft products: […]

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