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December 31, 2011 in Articles, News, Reference
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Microsoft patches dangerous web flaw in double time
PC Advisor By John E Dunn | Techworld | 31 December 11 Microsoft has issued an out-of-band fix for a vulnerability in its ASP.NET web platform that could allow an attacker to launch a successful DoS attack on a server using a nothing more sophisticated than a … |
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December 31, 2011 in Articles, News, Reference
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Hackers Eye Satellite Network to Combat Censorship
RedOrbit “Any ASP.NET Website that accepts form data is likely to be vulnerable, as well as Web servers running the default configuration of Internet Information Services (IIS) when ASP.NET is enabled, according to the post.” “An HTTP request that is merely … |
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December 30, 2011 in Articles, News, Reference
 BetaNews |
Critical ASP.NET security patch means extra hours for IT over the holiday weekend
BetaNews By Ed Oswald Microsoft's monthly Patch Tuesday is not until January 10, but the company is not waiting to patch a critical flaw in computers with the ASP.NET framework installed. The issue affects all currently supported versions of Windows, … Microsoft Releases Workarounds for DoS Zero-Day Bug in ASP.NET Websites, apps vulnerable to low-bandwidth, bot-free takedown, say researchers Microsoft provides protection for ASP.NET vulnerability |
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December 30, 2011 in Articles, News, Reference
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Windows emergency update live today: are you patched?
SlashGear What this patch does is to cut off access to a security hole that'd allow hackers to launch a DoS attack against people with Microsoft's ASP .NET application framework in place. What you'll have to do is head over to here: [Security Bulletin List] and … |
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December 30, 2011 in Articles, News, Reference
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Microsoft patches dangerous web flaw in double time
Techworld.com By John E Dunn | Techworld | Published: 17:10, 30 December 2011 Microsoft has issued an out-of-band fix for a vulnerability in its ASP.NET web platform that could allow an attacker to launch a successful DoS attack on a server using a nothing more … |
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December 30, 2011 in Articles, News, Reference
 Daily Disruption |
Microsoft finishes out 2011 with an emergency Windows Update
Daily Disruption … the next regularly scheduled Patch Tuesday in mid-January and addresses a flaw that could allow attackers to exploit hash tables to perform a denial-of-service (DoS) attack against a website built with Microsoft's ASP.NET application framework. … |
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December 30, 2011 in Articles, News, Reference
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Microsoft Releases Out-of-band Security Patch for .NET Vulnerability
ITProPortal The update has been rated as Critical for a Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerability and the post specifically praises the team behind this update, the ASP.NET team for this "holidays heroics". Four patches have been made available through the update … |
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December 30, 2011 in Articles, News, Reference
 Hot Hardware |
Microsoft Releases First and Only Out-of-Schedule Patch of 2011
Hot Hardware "An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could take any action in the context of an existing account on the ASP.NET site, including executing arbitrary commands. In order to exploit this vulnerability, an attacker must be able to … |
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December 30, 2011 in Articles, News, Reference
 RedOrbit |
Microsoft Releases Emergency Patch To Address Zero-Day Vulnerability
RedOrbit Microsoft released an emergency update for ASP .Net on Thursday, one day after a pair of security researchers unveiled findings showing that hackers could use a solitary machine and a broadband connection to launch denial-of-service (DoS) attacks … |
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December 30, 2011 in Articles, News, Reference
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Microsoft fixes .NET security holes
ZDNet UK (blog) "An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could take any action in the context of an existing account on the ASP.NET site, including executing arbitrary commands." The security update should be applied automatically, Microsoft said, … |