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 | from Tony Bradley, your Editor and Guide Last week was busy- and its not over yet. Microsoft released their monthly security bulletins for February- MS04-005, MS04-006 and MS04-007. MS04-007 addresses a vulnerability in Microsoft's implementation of ASN.1 which could be the biggest vulnerability on the Windows platform yet. The countdown has begun for when we will see a worm exploiting this ASN.1 flaw. In between dealing with that chaos I managed to post a slew of stuff on wireless security- a book review, a slightly re-worked article and a new Free Tools section dedicated to wireless security. Make sure you get your Windows systems patched (and forward this along to spread the word) and have a great week! | ||||
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| Monthly Security Bulletins Released by Microsoft Last week Microsoft released their cumulative patch for Internet Explorer. The MS04-004 Security Bulletin broke the new monthly release schedule Microsoft has been adhering to for security patches, but then again the patch was two months late by some measurements. This patch, which is cumulative and therefore includes all previous patches, repairs three new vulnerabilities which are rated anywhere from moderate to critical...Read More |
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| ASN.1 Vulnerability - What's The Big Deal? Microsoft Security Bulletin MS04-007 addresses a buffer overrun flaw in the ASN.1 implementation in every version of Windows since Windows 98. Some say this may be the biggest vulnerability in Windows yet- bigger than the RPC / DCOM flaws that led to the MSBlast (Blaster) worm variants that hit last year. What is ASN.1?...Read More |
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| Free Wireless Network Security Tools A new section has been added to the Free Internet / Network Security Tools portion of the site. The Free Wireless Security Tools section contains tools to help you test, secure and monitor your wireless network. There are tools to crack WEP encryption keys, scan for wireless access points or even to thwart the scanning of your own wireless access point...Read More |
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