Intel CPU Vulnerability can provide control of your system to attacker

Intel CPU Vulnerability can provide control of your system to attacker The U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team US-CERT has disclosed a flaw in Intel chips that could allow hackers to gain control of Windows and other operating systems. The flaw has already been exploited on 64-bit versions of...

Microsoft Patches Windows Flaw Exploited by Duqu

Microsoft on Tuesday released 13 security bulletins, including three for critical flaws in Windows Media and in the Windows kernel-mode drivers. The company had planned on releasing 14 bulletins in December’s Patch Tuesday shipment, but officials said that one of the planned fixes was causing a...

Microsoft to Issue Emergency Patch for Critical Windows Flaw

Microsoft will issue an out-of-band patch on Monday for a critical vulnerability in all of the current versions of Windows. The company didn’t identify which flaw it will be patching, but the description of the vulnerability is a close match to the LNK flaw that attackers have been exploiting for...

How to identify and clean Conficker infections

As the world prepares for the complete destruction of the Internet tomorrow when the Conficker worm makes a small change in its communication protocol, a voice of reason has emerged from the wilderness. The Honeynet Project on Monday released a paper with a detailed analysis of the worm as well a...

MS05-007: Vulnerability in Windows Could Allow Information Disclosure (888302) (uncredentialed check)

The remote version of Windows contains a flaw that may allow an attacker to cause it to disclose information over the use of a named pipe through a NULL session. An attacker may exploit this flaw to gain more knowledge about the remote host. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. include"compat.inc"; i...

MS03-025: Flaw in Windows Message Handling through Utility Manager Could Enable Privilege Elevation (822679)

The remote host runs a version of Windows that has a flaw in the way the utility manager handles Windows messages. As a result, it is possible for a local user to gain additional privileges on this host. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. include"compat.inc"; if description scriptid11789;...

MS02-071: WM_TIMER Message Handler Privilege Elevation (328310)

The remote version of Windows contains a flaw in the handling of WMTIMER messages for interactive processes that could allow a local user to execute arbitrary code on the remote host with the SYSTEM privileges. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. include"compat.inc"; if description scriptid11191;...

MS02-016: Opening Group Policy Files (318089)

The remote version of Windows contains a flaw in the Group Policy Object GPO access right of Active Directory that could allow a user to prevent the GPO to be applied to other users. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. include"compat.inc"; if description scriptid10945; scriptversion"1.38";...