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Microsoft Patch Tuesday – July 2011

13

Jul

2011

Hello and welcome to this month’s blog on Microsoft’s patch releases. This is an average month-the vendor is releasing four bulletins covering a total of 22 vulnerabilities. Only one of the issues is rated ‘Critical’ and it affects the Microsoft Bluetooth Stack. An attacker in physical proximity to a vulnerable computer can exploit this issue […]

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Cybercriminals switch from MBR to NTFS

06

Jul

2011

Modification of the hard drive areas responsible for the initial loading of the system has become increasing popular with cybercriminals. Moreover, cybercriminals have now moved on from just modifying the MBR (master boot record) to infecting the code of the NTFS loader. We recently discovered an interesting piece of malware — Cidox. It is peculiar […]

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Microsoft Patch Tuesday – June 2011

15

Jun

2011

Hello and welcome to this month’s blog on the Microsoft patch release. This is fairly busy month —the vendor is releasing 16 bulletins covering a total of 34 vulnerabilities. Fifteen of the issues are rated ‘Critical’ and they affect Internet Explorer, .NET, Windows kernel-mode drivers, OLE Automation, Distributed File System, SMB Client, and the […]

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