Greg Ahmad's blog

Web browsers are an integral part of home and business computing environments and one of the most popular and ubiquitous applications on computer systems. Due to their popularity, the exploitation of security vulnerabilities in browsers is a common method for attackers to compromise computers.

Over the past few years, targeted attacks against organizations have become increasingly common and have gained notoriety.

Recently we became aware of a new security vulnerability that affects various versions of Microsoft Windows operating systems. This vulnerability allows remote attackers to carry out denial-of-service and local privilege escalation attacks against affected computers and though not confirmed, it may also facilitate remote code-execution with kernel-level privileges.