QuickTime 0day for Vista and XP

Friday, April 25th, 2008

A remote vulnerability exists in the QuickTime player for Windows XP and Vista (latest service packs). Other versions are believed to be affected as well. For now, no details will be released regarding the method of exploitation. Because we are an information security think tank and because we encounter some very ...

Tactical Forensics Platform

Thursday, April 24th, 2008

Earlier I wrote about my proposed Tactical Network Security Monitoring Platform. Today I finally sat down and installed the operating systems I need on this system to create a portable tactical forensics and investigation platform. I did not want to use my main work laptop for this sort of work ...

Linux: Windows Made Hard

Monday, April 21st, 2008

For the past few months, we've shown how Linux has emerged from its early murky reputation of being cool to have but impractical to use. And there's no question it's refreshing to use an entire desktop system with nary a Microsoft or Apple product. But as some of our readers ...

Windows XP Service Pack 3 RTM Screenshots

Monday, April 21st, 2008

Microsoft released Windows XP SP3 to manufacturing today: Check out the first XP SP3 RTM screenshots! Click here for the screenshots...

Details of privilege escalation hole in Windows

Monday, April 21st, 2008

In a security alert last week, Microsoft reported a vulnerability which allows local users and users signed on with access to an Internet Information Server (IIS) or MS SQL server to escalate their privileges. Server operators such as hosting providers who allow user code to be executed, for example on ...