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Public proof-of-concept (PoC) exploits for ProxyLogon could be fanning a feeding frenzy of attacks even as patching makes progress.
As dangerous attacks accelerate against Microsoft Exchange Servers in the wake of the disclosure around the ProxyLogon group of security bugs, a public proof-of-concept (PoC) whirlwind has started up. It’s all leading to a feeding frenzy of cyber-activity.
The good news, however, is that Microsoft has issued a one-click mitigation and remediation tool in light of the ongoing swells of attacks.
Researchers said that while advanced persistent threats (APTs) were the first to the game when it comes to hacking vulnerable Exchange servers, the public PoCs mean that the cat is officially out of the bag, meaning that less sophisticated cybercriminals can start to leverage the opportunity.
today. our senior international correspondent, stan grant, live in islamabad. what went on behind the scenes to get this chopper back, stan? carol, this appears to be all part of a good will gesture to try to mend this relationship between the united states and pakistan. of course, since the killing of osama bin laden, we have seen real cracks appear in this relationship. senator john kerry was here yesterday for discussions with top officials, the president, the prime minister, the heads of the military and intelligence. he was looking, he says, for actions, not words, to get this relationship reset. now, it appears that one of the concessions is they are going to hand back this helicopter, at least the tail of the helicopter that actually went down in the osama bin laden raid. you may recall there was some speculation that pakistan may, in fact, hand it over to china, china being a long-time ally of pakistan. it is going to go back to the united states. we haven t been able to conf
phillips. the state of mississippi s governor says 25,000 homes could be lost in the flood as well as millions of dollars in farm products. a historical first in dublin, ireland. queen elizabeth becomes the first british monarch to step on irish soil. a security scare of a bomb hours before her arrival. pakistan is returning the tail section from the stealth helicopter that went down in the raid on osama bin laden s lair. coming as they hold a hearing on u.s./pakistani relations. have he heard? we all know why maria shriver and arnold schwarzenegger called it quits. the former governor has a ten-year-old child and the mother is not maria but a household employee. when he was running for office and denying allegations of sexual misdone kukt, he would have had a secret child with another woman. let s go live to los angeles and casey wian. fill us in. it is hard to believe that schwarzenegger could become more controversial after his two terms at california governor th
might do but apparently, they say that every couple of days, they change the 20 questions on the questionnaire for these wives. and then that s the way to figure out if they re lying because maybe they don t remember how they answered a few days before. we want access to them. they re not giving access to him. we want the chopper back. they re not giving us the chopper back. there s a huge problem with pakistan that asked us to pair our numbers of c.i.a. from 100 to 39 and military trainers that were training them, by the way, and special forces. they want the c.i.a. out and they want our trainers down from over 100 to 39. how about the fact that pakistan said yesterday that if there is another raid on that country, same kind of commando raid, there will be disasterous consequences for the united states of america. thankfully the pakistani press is not buying it. neither are we. they have come forward and said look, this is an embarrassment to the country and makes us wonder