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Foxglove Security bod Stephen Breen has strung together dusty unpatched Windows vulnerabilities to gain local system-level access on Windows versions up to 8.1. The unholy zero-day concoction, reported to Microsoft in September and still unpatched, is a reliable way of p0wning Windows for attackers that have managed to pop …

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  1. hplasm
    Coat

    Hot Potato?

    Seems like a mashup...

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  2. Chris King

    "Exploit takes a long time to cook Windows, but gives hackers a menu of evil options"

    So how would you like your Windows Zombies - mashed, boiled or fried ?

    (Oh, and keeping it foody, Apple punted out a load of security & bugfixes overnight)

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  3. allthecoolshortnamesweretaken

    Hot Potato,

    Don't pick it up, pick it up, pick it up.

    Quick, pass it on, poss it on, poss it on.

    You don't want to get caught, get caught, get caught.

    Drop it on someone. Who ? Who ? Anybody.

    You better not have it when the big one comes.

    I said you better not have it when the big one comes.

    It's a Hot Potato.

    (DNA, you are truely missed...)

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