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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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Hello, welcome to this month’s blog on the Microsoft patch release. This is a small month—the vendor is releasing four bulletins covering a total of four vulnerabilities. Only one of this month's issues is rated ‘Critical’ and it affects the Windows TCP/IP stack. It potentially can be exploited to completely compromise an affected computer. The […]

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We have written already about Stuxnet v2 or TR/Duqu and we mentioned that Avira detects it TR/Spy.Duqu.A and TR/Duqu.A.1. This malware uses a vulnerability in a Microsoft Windows component, the TrueType font parsing engine. The vulnerability is caused when the Windows kernel-mode driver win32k.sys fails to properly handle the TrueType font type. An attacker who […]

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