My Top 5 exploits of interest from the past weeks (July 29-Aug 6)
Here are my top five publicized exploits and vulnerabilities that have been in the news over the past week and a half.
Tag: vulnerabilities
No Patch for Microsoft Shortcut Vulnerability available for XP SP2 or any other end-of-life Windows release
If your enterprise is running Microsoft XP with Service Pack 2, then I’ve got news for you: It’s now reached its end of support as of July 13, 2010.What does this actually mean? If you require a critical patch for your systems that are running XP SP2, you won’t be able to obtain one.
Analysis of the Siemens SCADA and Windows Shortcut Vulnerabilities
As you’re probably well aware, there has been a lot of news over the past month regarding a new Malware that is impacting Siemens WinCC SCADA systems. The Malware is known as Stuxnet. Looking closer at this Malware, there are really three key vulnerabilities that are exposed.