Microsoft Investigating into Windows 7 Zero-Day Threat
Last Wednesday, researcher Laurent Gaffié published on his blog information about a bug in the Server Message Block (SMB) that can be exploited to perform denial-of-service (DoS) attacks. The SMB protocol is generally used for sharing files, printers and serial ports on a network. The vulnerability is said to affect both Windows 7 and Server 2008 Release 2. Gaffié criticized the Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) several times for not proving to be [...]
Last Wednesday, researcher Laurent Gaffié published on his blog information about a bug in the Server Message Block (SMB) that can be exploited to perform denial-of-service (DoS) attacks. The SMB protocol is generally used for sharing files, printers and serial ports on a network. The vulnerability is said to affect both Windows 7 and Server 2008 Release 2. Gaffié criticized the Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) several times for not proving to be [...]
