SkyRecon Protects from Zero-Day Vulnerability in Windows IE 7

Dover, MA, December 17, 2008 --(PR.com)-- SkyRecon® Systems (www.skyrecon.com), the premier provider of integrated, proactive endpoint security solutions, today announced that its StormShield® Security Suite provides automatic protection for an exploitable Microsoft® Internet Explorer® 7 which reportedly contains a vulnerability that could lead to remote code execution as describe in a Microsoft Security Advisory (961051).

With the default Internet Explorer 7 data binding settings in place, a memory corruption error could occur when processing specially-crafted XML content that can cause an affected browser to unexpectedly close in a vulnerable state or to execute arbitrary code.

Attacks against the vulnerability are currently targeting Windows Internet Explorer 7 on the following Windows editions: XP Service Pack 2, XP Service Pack 3, Server 2003 Service Pack 1, Server 2003 Service Pack 2, Vista/Vista Service Pack 1, and Server 2008.

“Windows laptops, desktops, and servers running our lightweight StormShield Security Suite client are automatically protected against any zero-day attacks related to this vulnerability,” says Thomas Garnier, Senior Research Engineer at SkyRecon Systems. “By simply having the StormShield option, ‘Protection against overflow’ set to ‘Critical’ or ‘High’ level, our customers’ systems and data are automatically protected, even without a patch update.

StormShield Security Suite provides proactive protection for the system and the data delivered through a multi-layered, light-weight single endpoint protection platform, providing dynamic and risk-based policy control and enforcement for: anti-virus/anti-spyware, device control, content encryption, host-based intrusion prevention (HIPS), system firewall, application control, wireless security, and network access control (NAC). To learn more about the comprehensive protection and dynamic policy enforcement available in StormShield, be sure to register for an upcoming educational webinar at http://skyrecon.com/webinars.

· System Protection at http://skyrecon.com/system_protection
· Disk & File Encryption at http://skyrecon.com/encryption
· Data Protection at http://skyrecon.com/data_protection
· Access Control at http://skyrecon.com/access_control
· IT Compliance at http://skyrecon.com/it_compliance
· USB Security at http://skyrecon.com/usb-security

About SkyRecon Systems Inc.
Founded in 2003, SkyRecon Systems is a leading global provider of endpoint protection platforms. The company is a contributing member of the SecureIT Alliance, has received the prestigious Red Herring 100 Award, and has been named "Entrepreneurial Security Company of the Year” by Frost & Sullivan. StormShield has again received 4 stars in the SC Magazine Endpoint Security Group Test, has been nominated as a finalist for the SC Awards magazine in the US Best Mobile Device Security Solution category and the 2008 TechWorld.com Awards in the Endpoint Security Product of the Year category, and was also recently selected as a top 10 vendor for the 2008 Computer Reseller News list of Emerging Tech Vendors You Need to Know.

More information about SkyRecon can be obtained by visiting www.skyrecon.com, attending an educational security webinar, or by calling +1 (877) 239-3057.

Press Contact:
Sean Martin, CISSP
smartin@skyrecon.com
(949) 878-0592

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