Posts Tagged ‘flame’
Patch Tuesday June 2012: RDP broken, again. Stuxnet TTF, again.
This is shaping up to be an interesting Patch Tuesday with critical vulnerabilities being released across a combination of operating system components and client applications. In total there are 7 Microsoft Security Bulletins covering 26 distinct vulnerabilities in this June 2012 Microsoft Patch Tuesday. More than half of these vulnerabilities are rated as being likely…
Flame Burns a Little Brighter
Did you know that Microsoft’s Terminal Server Licensing Service (we’ll call it TSLS for convenience) generated certificates that could be used to sign code? No? Neither did Redmond. Flame leveraged a “0day” (zero day) within TSLS to sign its own code, allowing it to appear as if the code came from Microsoft. This allowed Flame…
Putting out the Flames
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: there is a new piece of malware and this one is even worse than the last one. It is bigger, scarier, more complex and will take years, according to some estimates, to actually ever know what the malware really does. And of course it already has a…
