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Dec
2011

Last week reports surfaced about a “zero-day” exploit for Adobe Reader (CVE-2011-2462) that had been actively used in targeted attacks beginning in November. The malicious PDFs were emailed to targets along with text encouraging the target to open the malicious attachment. If opened, the malware known as BKDR_SYKIPOT.B installs onto the target system. The reported […]

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Microsoft has released only four bulletins covering a total of four vulnerabilities, in its monthly security update. One of the bulletins is rated “critical”, while two are rated “important” and remaining one is rated “moderate.” As Only one of this month’s issues is rated ‘Critical’ and it affects the Windows TCP/IP stack. It potentially can […]

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This month’s Microsoft Updates includes an interesting vulnerability: Microsoft Security Bulletin MS11-083 “This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in Microsoft Windows. The vulnerability could allow remote code execution if an attacker sends a continuous flow of specially crafted UDP packets to a closed port on a target system.” A continuous flow of UDP […]

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