Microsoft Security Advisory (2286198): Vulnerability in Windows Shell Could Allow Remote Code Execution – 7/19/2010

Revision Note: V1.1 (July 19, 2010): Clarified the vulnerability description and the “Is this a security vulnerability that requires Microsoft to issue a security update?” FAQ entry. Advisory Summary:Microsoft is investigating reports of limited, targeted attacks exploiting a vulnerability in Windows Shell, a component of Microsoft Windows. This advisory contains information about which versions of Windows are vulnerable as well as workarounds and mitigations for this issue.

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This post was written by Ted on July 20, 2010

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Solution and Winner of the 1st Panda Challenge 2010

Well, the first challenge has officially come to an end. More than 1000 people downloaded it, though we only received 12 correct answers. Here you have the explanation of the challenge solution detailed by its author, Joxean:The challenge is a crackme consisting in a little virtual machine developed in Free …—
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This post was written by Ted on July 19, 2010

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Microsoft Security Advisory (2028859): Vulnerability in Canonical Display Driver Could Allow Remote Code Execution – 7/13/2010

Revision Note: V2.0 (July 13, 2010): Advisory updated to reflect publication of security bulletin. Advisory Summary:Microsoft has completed the investigation into a public report of this vulnerability. We have issued MS10-043 to address this issue. For more information about this issue, including download links for an available security update, please review MS10-043. The vulnerability addressed is the Canonical Display Driver Integer Overflow Vulnerability – CVE-2009-3678.

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This post was written by Ted on July 18, 2010

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Microsoft Security Advisory (2219475): Vulnerability in Windows Help and Support Center Could Allow Remote Code Execution – 7/13/2010

Revision Note: V2.0 (July 13, 2010): Advisory updated to reflect publication of security bulletin. Advisory Summary:Microsoft has completed the investigation into a public report of this vulnerability. We have issued M10-042 to address this issue. For more information about this issue, including download links for an available security update, please review M10-042. The vulnerability addressed is the Help Center URL Validation Vulnerability – CVE-2010-1885.

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This post was written by Ted on July 18, 2010

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Panda Challenge 2010 Edition: 1st challenge up!

As promised, this 1st challenge is here: 1st-challenge.exe. To solve it, you have to create one valid license key for 999 users of this program.The license key has to be sent to pandachallenge at pandasecurity dot com before next Monday at 17:00 (GMT+2). To avoid any problem with the mail …—
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This post was written by Ted on July 17, 2010

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