October 12, 2009 12:32 AM
Posted by: Ken Harthun
Microsoft Windows,
Security bulletin,
VulnerabilitiesMicrosoft Security Response Center's October 2009 Bulletin Release Advance Notification:
For October we are releasing 13 bulletins...
September 8, 2009 11:37 PM
Posted by: Ken Harthun
Critical update,
insecure,
Microsoft Windows,
Networking,
Patch management,
Patch Tuesday,
Remote Code Execution,
Security,
Security bulletin,
Vulnerabilities,
Wireless securityAll of them are critical, but not a single one of them affects Windows 7, scheduled for release on October 22.
The most dangerous flaw covered by this month’s batch of patches is a remote code execution vulnerability in the way that the JScript scripting engine decodes script in Web...
March 31, 2009 12:48 AM
Posted by: Ken Harthun
Conficker,
Microsoft Windows,
Security,
Security bulletin,
Security management,
Vulnerabilities,
WormNo one knows for sure, but we do know that *something* is going to happen on April Fools' Day. Conficker is a new breed of malware; the people behind it are of exceptional intelligence....
January 23, 2009 2:15 AM
Posted by: Ken Harthun
Malware,
Opinion,
Patch management,
Security,
Security bulletin,
Zero-day vulnerabilityThe latest mass infection to hit the Internet is the Win32/Conficker/Downadup Worm, estimated to have already infected between 500,000 and 8.9 million PCs, depending on whose numbers you believe. This is astounding, considering that the worm exploits a vulnerability in Windows that Microsoft
December 12, 2008 9:44 PM
Posted by: Ken Harthun
Critical update,
Firefox,
Internet Explorer,
Malware,
Opinion,
Remote Code Execution,
Security,
Security bulletin,
Vulnerabilities,
Zero-day exploit,
Zero-day vulnerabilityEven though Microsoft released the biggest batch of patches ever on Tuesday--28 flaws affecting Windows, Office, Internet Explorer, Visual Basic Active Controls and Windows Media Player, 23 of them rated “critical”--there's no fix for a zero-day XML parser vulnerability that surfaced the same...
October 29, 2008 3:04 PM
Posted by: Ken Harthun
Browsers,
Opera,
Remote Code Execution,
Security bulletin,
Zero-day exploit,
Zero-day vulnerabilityJust as Opera completed patches for critical vulnerabilities in its browser, researchers discovered another remote code execution bug. In its recent article, "Opera scrambles to quash zero-day bug in...
October 23, 2008 8:29 PM
Posted by: Ken Harthun
Critical update,
Malware,
Microsoft Windows,
Remote Code Execution,
Security,
Security bulletin,
VulnerabilitiesMicrosoft just released a critical update for a "privately reported" vulnerability in the server service:
This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in the Server service. The...
