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Windows 7 critical holes fixed in record Patch Tuesday
News In its biggest Patch Tuesday ever, Redmond stitches up a pair of Windows 7 holes, along with fixing up a number of zero-day flaws elsewhere.
Tags: Security Management, Network security, PC security, Server Message Block, Microsoft IIS Server, Security, Microsoft Corp., Vulnerability, Microsoft Windows 7, Server
Windows 7, Vista zero-day flaw reported
News Security researcher says vulnerability in Windows 7 could lead to an attack causing a critical system error, or "blue screen of death".
Tags: Microsoft Windows, Server Message Block, Microsoft Windows Vista, Zero-day Bug, BSOD, Small And Medium Business, Microsoft Windows 7, Flaw, Microsoft Windows Vista SP1, Microsoft Windows
Microsoft: Trojans are huge and China is tops in browser exploits
News The Microsoft Security Intelligence Report shows Trojans continue to dominate the field of malware, emerging markets are at greater risk for infection, and vulnerability rates are going down overall.
Tags: Security, Viruses and worms, Microsoft Corp., Malware, Web Browser, Vulnerability, social engineering, Computer, Infection Rate, exploit code
Mirroring Web sites with wget
Techguide Vincent Danen demonstrates the basics of wget for mirroring entire Web sites.
Tags: Open source, Mirroring, Security, FTP site, HTML page, Wget, Site, Vincent Danen, exploit code, researcher
Microsoft says security programs are paying off
News Company releases progress report on three programs launched a year ago to identify security holes and patch them faster.
Tags: Data security, PC security, Authentication and encryption, Security, Sourcefire Inc., Vulnerability, Software Update, Microsoft Internet Explorer, exploit code, security bulletin
Microsoft probing SQL Server vulnerability
News The vulnerability opens system to remote code execution but only affects certain versions of the database software.
Tags: Network security, Server platforms, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft SQL Server, Security, Vulnerability, Microsoft SQL Server 2000, Microsoft SQL Server 2005, Microsoft Data Engine
Cisco patches Security Manager flaw
News The company has released an out-of-cycle patch for a vulnerability that could enable a successful attack on Cisco security products.
Tags: Web 2.0, Web sites, Security, Security Manager, TCP, Cisco Systems Inc., Vulnerability, Database, Intrusion Prevention System, Flaw
Microsoft: Hole exploit endangers all IE versions
News Users of Microsoft's browser are at risk from untrusted as well as trusted sites, as attacks seek to drop password stealers and Trojan horses onto systems.
Tags: Data security, Authentication and encryption, Spam and phishing, Web browsers, Microsoft Corp., Malware, Security, Attack, Password, exploit code
Microsoft patching zero-day Windows 7 SMB hole
News Company warns customers that exploit code for the Server Message Block hole is available and suggests a workaround until a patch is ready.
Tags: Windows 7, PC security, Security, Server Message Block, Trustworthy Computing, TCP, Computer, Microsoft Corp., Windows 7, Vulnerability
Oyster cracked in public, researcher claims
News A researcher claims to have developed code that can undermine the cryptography on NXP's Mifare Classic chip, used in London's Oyster card.
Tags: Security, Authentication and encryption, RFID, Chip, Cryptography, RFC, exploit code, London, researcher, card reader
DNS exploit code is in the wild
News The urgency to patch clients and servers rises to a fever pitch as code to attack the Internet is released.
Tags: Security, Domain names, Web sites, Network security, Domain Name, consortium, exploit code, patch management, DNS, program manager
Bots exploiting Microsoft's latest RPC flaw
News Systems not yet patched for a recently announced flaw are vulnerable to a trio of malware that could enlist the compromised computer to attack sites in China.
Tags: Security, Viruses and worms, Antivirus software, Microsoft Corp., Malware, Criminal, F-Secure Corp., RPC, Bot, Flaw
Microsoft to patch zero-day SMB, IIS holes
News Microsoft pushes back the release of the antimalware software until the second half of next year, but says related security releases are on track.
Tags: Data security, Business applications, Antivirus software, Spam filtering, Server Message Block, Microsoft IIS Server, Microsoft Corp., Business applications, Windows Server 2008 R2, Small And Medium Business
Adobe zero-day flaw won't be fixed until March
News All versions of Adobe Reader and Acrobat Reader are affected by the flaw, which is being actively exploited in the wild.
Tags: Java, Viruses and worms, Adobe Systems Inc., Security, Buffer-overflow, Adobe Acrobat Reader, Zero-day Bug, exploit code, Adobe Acrobat, JavaScript
Acrobat 9 crashes with malformed URLs
News Researcher able to crash the document reader by pointing to URL with a specific string of characters.
Tags: Security, Business applications, Microsoft Windows Vista, exploit code, mailing list, denial of service, DOS, Adobe Acrobat, Microsoft Windows, researcher
