Tuesday, March 16th, 2010 Microsoft has released a Microsoft security advisory about this issue for IT professionals. The security advisory contains additional security-related information. To view the security advisory, visit the following Microsoft Web site:http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/981374.mspxTwo Fix it solutions are available:Fix it solution for peer factory in iepeers.dll - We have created an application compatibility ...
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Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010 Microsoft is investigating new public reports of a vulnerability in VBScript that is exposed on supported versions of Microsoft Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows Server 2003 through the use of Internet Explorer. Our investigation has shown that the vulnerability cannot be exploited on Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, ...
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Saturday, January 30th, 2010 This is just a quick example of how you can quickly and easily modify the HOSTS file on a compromised Windows system using the meterpreter script called hostsedit. As always, we start off with a basic exploit to gain a meterpreter session back from the victim's machine:msf > use windows/smb/ms08_067_netapi
msf ...
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Saturday, January 30th, 2010 I just wanted to show a quick example of using Incognito to impersonate user tokens on a compromised system. You can think of tokens as a web "cookie" which is just an object that holds your security information for the entire login process so that you don't have to re-authenticate ...
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Monday, January 25th, 2010 Named Win32.Worm.Zimuse.A, this new nasty claims to be an IQ Test but is really a worm that will create about 7-11 copies of itself and store them in critical areas of your Windows system and then destroy the first 50KB of the Master Boot Record (MBR) after X number of ...
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