Patch Tuesday for Microsoft
Microsoft’s June Security Advance Notification Microsoft is planning to release ten bulletins addressing 34 vulnerabilities on Tuesday, June 8th. The bulletins are rated as follows: 3 “Critical” and 7 “Important”. The affected software includes: Windows, Microsoft Office, and Internet Explorer. Additionally, Microsoft plans to address the issues highlighted in Security Advisories 983438 and 980088. We [...]
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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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Microsoft Internet Explorer Vulnerability
New Exploit Code for Microsoft Internet Explorer Vulnerability Exploit code has surfaced for one of the vulnerabilities in MS10-018, the out-of-cycle bulletin released by Microsoft on March 30. This bulletin addresses multiple vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer including a 0-day vulnerability that was being exploited earlier this month. This most recent exploit code which has been [...]
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Microsoft
As a reminder, Microsoft is planning to release two security bulletins today, March 9, 2010. Both bulletins carry a maximum severity rating of important and the issues addressed could lead to remote code execution. The first bulletin applies to various versions of Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7 and is rated as important for all [...]
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Microsoft MS10-015 BSOD Issue
Microsoft has acknowledged that there is an issue when applying the update related to advisory MS10-015 on systems that are infected with certain malware strains including one called “Tidserv”. These infected systems have a high likelihood of becoming unbootable displaying a PAGE_FAULT “Blue Screen of Death” (BSOD) error. Microsoft has issued directions on how to [...]
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February
Microsoft Advance Notification for February The assessment was updated yesterday to note that Microsoft has released their Advance Notification for February Security Bulletins. On Tuesday, February 9, Microsoft plans on releasing a total of thirteen Security Bulletins: five “critical”, seven “important”, and one “moderate”. These bulletins will address a total of twenty-six vulnerabilities across Windows [...]
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MS10-002
Microsoft has released MS10-002 today. The update addresses 7 privately reported and 1 publicly reported vulnerability which is associated with the widely publicized attacks associated with Security Advisory 979352. There are four (4) Uninitialized Memory Corruption Vulnerabilities, two (2) HTML Object Memory Corruption Vulnerabilities, one (1) XSS Filter Script Handling Vulnerability, and one (1) URL [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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Anti-Virus
There are plenty of tools that you can use for removing viruses and worms. Go with some name brand software from reputable websites and companies. Trying to skim and save on Anti-virus can further infect you in the end. Some reputable software you can check out are: McAfee Symantec Trend Micro Microsoft (yes, we are totally shocked [...]