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Code injection
Windows Shell in Microsoft Windows XP SP3, Server 2003 SP2, Vista SP1 and SP2, Server 2008 SP2 and R2, and Windows 7 allows local users or remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted 1 .LNK or 2 .PIF shortcut file, which is not properly handled during icon display in Windows Explorer...
Critical infrastructure security still lagging
The interdependencies and interconnections of the networks that run the country’s critical infrastructure assets such as water, power and gas have created a dangerously fragile system in which security is just now becoming a priority, experts say. For years the priorities for these networks have...
Electrical grid attacks have been ongoing for years
The supposedly new attacks on the electrical grid and other portions of the country’s critical infrastructure that came to light this week are in fact not new at all and have been ongoing for several years. Attackers have been making serious inroads into U.S. government, utility and military...
[NB07-07] Multiple vulnerabilities in Takebishi Electric DeviceXplorer HIDIC OPC server
Multiple vulnerabilities in Takebishi Electric DeviceXplorer HIDIC OPC server ============================================================================ = OPC servers provide a standard way to interoperate automation and control systems, bridging data from several industrial protocols such as...