Computer Safety & News

While exploitation may be difficult to achieve, active Firewall protection should help mitigate this new risk until a security patch emerges. Windows 0-day SMB mrxsmb.dll vulnerability http://isc.sans.edu/diary.html?storyid=10423 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0394 http://blogs.technet.com/b/srd/archive/2011/02/16/notes-on-exploitability-of-the-recent-windows-browser-protocol-issue.aspx http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2011/Feb/285 QUOTE: A new vulnerability has been discovered exploiting SMB component of Windows. The attack involves sending of malformed Browser Election requests leading the heap overflow […]

While there are constantly new attacks circulating, some of the most popular methods are the older attacks that are well established. Many of these older attacks continue as they open up the PC’s security more extensively than some of the newer attacks that are difficult to exploit.  While the M86 report may not completely reflect […]