Well, we are certainly starting off the new year in an exciting and scary way. In case you haven’t come out from under your rock, there is a new zero day exploit in the wild that affects all versions of windows. Frsirt is lists two different exploits on their site. You can find them here and here.
All windows users should run the fix from Ilfak Guilfanov, located here. This version has been tested by the fine incident handlers from the SANS ISC.
More details to follow….
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Paul AsadoorianPaul Asadoorian
Paul Asadoorian spent time “in the trenches” implementing security programs for a lottery company and then a large university. Paul is offensive, having spent several years as a penetration tester. He is the founder of the Security Weekly podcast network, offering freely available shows on the topics of information security and hacking. As Product Evangelist for Tenable Network Security, Paul built a library of materials on the topic of vulnerability management. When not hacking together embedded systems (or just plain hacking them) or coding silly projects in Python, Paul can be found researching his next set of headphones.Paul Asadoorian spent time “in the trenches” implementing security programs for a lottery company and then a large university. Paul is offensive, having spent several years as a penetration tester. He is the founder of the Security Weekly podcast network, offering freely available shows on the topics of information security and hacking. As Product Evangelist for Tenable Network Security, Paul built a library of materials on the topic of vulnerability management. When not hacking together embedded systems (or just plain hacking them) or coding silly projects in Python, Paul can be found researching his next set of headphones.
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