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Monthly Archives: January 2006

Windows Update for Tuesday, January 10

Tuesday, January 10, 2006

Following very closely on the heels of Windows Meta File vulnerability, Microsoft released another two patches today, along with a software removal tool. Besides the WMF exploit, Microsoft’s security bulletin released details on two more critical security issues, a flaw in embedded web fonts and a hole in Office and Outlook.
All Windows users should run [...]

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Windows Update for the WMF Exploit

Thursday, January 5, 2006

Windows has just released their patch for the WMF exploit early. Their goal was to have the patch ready for the January 10th update cycle, but it seems they have finished their testing and are ready to release early.
Sadly, it seems there will be no update for Windows 98 or later systems. However, Steve Gibson [...]

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Update on the WMF Exploit

Tuesday, January 3, 2006

Not a whole lot has been happening on the exploit front. Much talk has been over whether or not Windows 9x is actually vulnerable. From what I read, it seems Windows 9x, by default, is not vulnerable. But the user can install third-party software that could open up an attack vector.
Another issue regarding the older [...]

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More on the WMF Exploit

Sunday, January 1, 2006

Quite a lot has happened since I last posted about the security issue, and I am still trying to read up on everything that has happened. The situation has gotten worse, much worse. We are seeing very fast mutation of the attacks, with a “second generation” attack coming out one day after the first. Read [...]

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