Microsoft will release a patch against this problem in June, but even after that there are likely to be other attacks using other exploits. So let’s think a bit beyond the next couple of days on how to defend your network. User education is of course key, but likely insufficient. Attacks like that will use

Internet Storm Center reported about a new Word vulnerability being used. Exploit, using the vulnerability, has been sent as email attachment to specific individuals. The exploit functioned as a dropper, extracting a trojan byte-for-byte from the host file when executed. After extracting and launching the trojan, the exploit then overwrote the original Word document with

Michal Zalewski has discovered a vulnerability in Internet Explorer, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user’s system. The vulnerability is caused due to an error in the processing of certain sequences of nested “object” HTML tags. This can be exploited to corrupt memory by tricking a user into visiting a