Johannes Ullrich
Johannes Ullrich
Johannes Ullrich is the founder of DShield. DShield is now part of the SANS Internet Storm Center which he leads since it was created from Incidents.org and DShield back in 2001. In 2005, he was named one of the 50 most powerful people in Networking by Network World Magazine. He is the dean of research, and an instructor for the SANS Institute...
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Each patch (official or not) has a chance to 'blow up' and cause unintended side effects.
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At this point, Apple does not appear to offer the patches in distinct packages, which will make testing in larger environments tricky.
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These are the sort of problems that we typically see when patches don't cooperate well with various third-party software and some of the less used functions of Windows,
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More often than not, a patch will actually do more damage than good if you roll it out too quickly without testing it first.
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For home users: Apply the patch as soon as you can.
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We carefully checked this patch and are 100 percent sure that it is not malicious. The patch is, of course, not as carefully tested as an official patch. But we feel it is worth the risk. We know it blocks all exploit attempts we are aware of.
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We do suspect that Microsoft will still release an early patch given the imminent danger to its customers from this flaw. As stated by the company about two years ago, patches can be released within two days if needed. Based on prior public commitments, we do suspect that Microsoft will issue the patch early once they are convinced that customers require the use of Internet Explorer in production environments.
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It?s sort of a wake-up call for Apple users. Everybody focuses on Windows, but there are viruses for other operating systems.
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It used to be teenagers looking for bragging rights. Now it's done for profit.
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The vulnerability itself has been known about for a while, but it was only a problem for a denial-of-service attack that would sometimes cause IE to crash. Up until now, no one knew how to mark the code and find it in memory to execute a remote code attack.
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What hackers are trying to find is, if they can make a bad Excel file or a bad Word file, does the program crash and allow them to compromise the system.
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At this point, we do not recommend applying these temporary patches.
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A new version can be pushed out every four hours. You can never catch up.
The story here is if you are hit, you do have other vulnerabilities than this problem.