Microsoft Releases Huge Patch Tuesday Update For 49 Bugs

Microsoft has released its largest-ever bundle of patches, pushing out 16 updates that fix a total of 49 individual vulnerabilities. The patches include updates for six critical vulnerabilities, most notably a huge fix for some remote code-execution bugs in various versions of Internet Explorer...

EU Agency Says Stuxnet Portends Future Sophisticated Attacks

The European agency responsible for protecting the critical infrastructure of EU countries is warning its member states that the Stuxnet attack represents a major change in the malware landscape and that they should be prepared for further attacks with the same level of sophistication and...

CVE-2010-3889

Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft Windows on 32-bit platforms allows local users to gain privileges via unknown vectors, as exploited in the wild in July 2010 by the Stuxnet worm, and identified by Microsoft researchers and other researchers...

CVE-2010-3888

Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft Windows on 32-bit platforms allows local users to gain privileges via unknown vectors, as exploited in the wild in July 2010 by the Stuxnet worm, and identified by Kaspersky Lab researchers and other researchers...

Code injection

Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft Windows on 32-bit platforms allows local users to gain privileges via unknown vectors, as exploited in the wild in July 2010 by the Stuxnet worm, and identified by Microsoft researchers and other researchers...

Code injection

Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft Windows on 32-bit platforms allows local users to gain privileges via unknown vectors, as exploited in the wild in July 2010 by the Stuxnet worm, and identified by Kaspersky Lab researchers and other researchers...

CVE-2010-3888

CVE-2010-3888 concerns an unspecified local privilege escalation in 32-bit Windows, exploited in the wild by Stuxnet in July 2010. The initial description notes a privilege gain via unknown vectors and does not specify affected versions beyond 32-bit Windows; no concrete root cause, vulnerable co...

CVE-2010-3889

Technical details (affected products, components, versions, root cause, and exploit information) are not publicly provided in the connected documents. Monitor for updates.

CVE-2010-3888

Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft Windows on 32-bit platforms allows local users to gain privileges via unknown vectors, as exploited in the wild in July 2010 by the Stuxnet worm, and identified by Kaspersky Lab researchers and other researchers...

This Week In Security: Stuxnet Redux, Gmail Security and a Monster Patch Tuesday

The Stuxnet buzz continued this week, Adobe took a few steps toward better security and Microsoft announced plans for its largest Patch Tuesday ever. But it wasn’t just Microsoft, Adobe and everyone’s favorite worm grabbing headlines. Read on for the full week in review. Not going away anytime...

Security Firms Scramble For SCADA Talent After Stuxnet

Three months after the world first learned of the sophisticated Stuxnet worm, insiders say that there’s a scramble to find and hire engineers with knowledge of both security and the industrial control systems that were Stuxnet’s intended target. Anti virus companies admit their research teams wer...

VulnCheck KEV: CVE-2010-3889

Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft Windows on 32-bit platforms allows local users to gain privileges via unknown vectors, as exploited in the wild in July 2010 by the Stuxnet worm, and identified by Microsoft researchers and other researchers...

VulnCheck KEV: CVE-2010-3888

Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft Windows on 32-bit platforms allows local users to gain privileges via unknown vectors, as exploited in the wild in July 2010 by the Stuxnet worm, and identified by Kaspersky Lab researchers and other researchers...

Microsoft Plans Record-Breaking Patch Tuesday

This month’s batch of security patches from Microsoft will be a record-breaking one: 16 bulletins addressing a whopping 49 security vulnerabilities. According to the company’s advance notice, four of the 16 bulletins will be rated “critical,” Microsoft’s highest severity rating. Microsoft rates a...

More Secure Software Needed for Utilities, NERC CSO Says

It took a malware attack with an unprecedented level of sophistication to make it happen, but officials in charge of the security of much of the country’s electrical grid have come ot the conclusion that there is a need for more secure software and better security processes and procedures to...

Data Shows Iran No Longer A Stuxnet Hotspot

Kaspersky Lab released its malware statistics report for September. Buried among the data on the top malware detected on users’ machines and being pushed from malicious Web sites is an interesting factoid: Iran no longer ranks as a Stuxnet hotspot, while India continues to struggle with the effec...

Rethinking Stuxnet

It’s hard to think of a story in the last few years that has generated more hype, conjecture, posturing, hyperbole and misdirection than Stuxnet, with the possible exception of the Aurora attacks. The commentary and hype around Stuxnet has shifted and morphed over the last few months, and now it...

Week in Review: Stuxnet Redux and The Wire's D.C. Edition

Stuxnet Redux and The Wire: United States Governments, the Internet and security were the theme as Internet wiretapping, trans national cyber laws and the further proliferation of Stuxnet – a computer virus believed to have state backing – topped this week’s news. After more than a week of intens...

Researcher Demonstrates Stuxnet At Work

We know Stuxnet has caused some major disruptions in nations like Iran and India. But how, exactly, does it work? In this video, Symantec researcher Liam O’Murchu demonstrates how a Stuxnet infected programmable logic controller PLC by Siemens can instruct a piece of machinery to run out of...

VulnCheck KEV: CVE-2010-2772

Siemens Simatic WinCC and PCS 7 SCADA system uses a hard-coded password, which allows local users to access a back-end database and gain privileges, as demonstrated in the wild in July 2010 by the Stuxnet worm, a different vulnerability than CVE-2010-2568...