Thursday, August 21, 2008

Laptops and Airline Travel

Laptops and Airline Travel
When the TSA (Transportation Security Administration) banned laptops from being carried on to airplanes in the wake of an attempted terrorist attack, I wrote an article detailing steps to enable...

The new multiple face of Internet threats - Calgary Herald

Microsoft Windows MJPEG Codec Multiple Overflows
The Microsoft MJPEG codec is vulnerable to multiple stack-based buffer overflows when parsing specially crafted files. A remote attacker could overflow the buffer and execute arbitary code within the context of the user viewing the malicious file.

Microsoft ActiveX Snapshot Viewer for Microsoft Access RCE
Microsoft ActiveX Snapshot Viewer for Microsoft Access could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system.  Targeted exploitation was reported on July 7, but X-Force has been monitoring toolkit-related mass exploitation since July 10.  As of July 24, exploitation has continued to escalate.  See technical description for more details.

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