April Patches and Updates
1. Denial of Service Conditions in Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft SMTP Service (MS10-024 CVE-2010-0024) Microsoft Windows SMTP Service and Microsoft Exchange are vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by the improper handling of DNS Mail Exchanger (MX) resource records by the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol component. As SMTP services are often exposed to the [...]
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Happy Friday!
Adobe libtiff exploitation On Monday, we reported that Secunia had discovered that one of the recent Adobe Reader vulnerabilities was actually related to an old vulnerability in libtiff. Secunia had developed an exploit but kept it private. Now, there are reports that others have succeeded in constructing exploits for this issue as well. We encourage [...]
In: Education, Security · Tagged with: adobe, browser, chrome, exploit, libtiff, secunia, seo, vulnerability
Security News
Microsoft Announces out of cycle Security Update schedule Microsoft issued their Advanced Notification Service (ANS) notification to inform customers of the impending release of MS10-002 on January 21st, 2010. The update will be cumulative, in advance of the normal February release Cycle, and is intended to protect customers from the known, widely publicized attacks associated [...]
In: Education, Security · Tagged with: adobe, apple, DEP, email, microsoft
Adobe and Social Networks
According the the McAfee predictions report, Adobe will be a larger target for hackers than Microsoft. So keep your adobe products updated. No matter how annoying they are. You know what we’re talking about. Also, beware when social networking. Sites such as Twitter, MySpace and Facebook will be a very large target for hackers. If [...]