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Category: vulnerabilities | Posted by Avatar Staff 293 days ago
Via: http://www.symantec.com | Tags: microsofts patch tuesday november comments Discuss  
Hello and welcome to this month’s blog on the Microsoft patch releases. November is a light month with only two releases, each addressing one vulnerability. The first bulletin, rated as critical by Microsoft, addresses a vulnerability reported in October (BID 25945). The problem stems around how Windows handles certain malformed URLs. This issue saw a fair amount of press over the last month including a security advisory released by Microsoft. The second vulnerability, rated as important by Microsoft, i read more »
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Category: blogs | Posted by Avatar Staff 292 days ago
Via: http://blog.washingtonpost.com | Tags: microsofts valentine security updates comments Discuss  
Microsoft today pushed out software updates to fix a large number of security flaws in computers running its Windows operating systems and other software. Notable among the patches is a critical roll-up of fixes for Internet Explorer, the Web browser used by the majority of the world's online population. Today's bundle of fixes corrects at least 17 security vulnerabilities found in Microsoft products ranging from Windows to Microsoft Office and Works, to Internet Information Services...Please click on the read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 291 days ago
Via: http://lists.jammed.com | Tags: isn microsofts patch tuesday includes security bulletins comments Discuss  
http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=206502000By Thomas ClaburnInformationWeekFebruary 12, 2008 Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) on Tuesday released 11 Security Bulletins that address 17 potential vulnerabilities.Six of the Security Bulletins are rated critical; five are rated important. Microsoft did not include a fix for a JScript vulnerability that the company mentioned in its pre-patch guidance last week.The affected software includes WebDAV Mini-Redirector, Object Linking and Embeddin read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 286 days ago
Via: http://feeds.ziffdavisenterprise.com | Tags: behind scenes microsofts secure windows initiative comments Discuss  
p strong eWeek Security Watch Editor Ryan Naraine recently spoke with Jonathan Ness the lead software security engineer on the SWI Defense team about how software vulnerabilities are rated and the ups and downs of working with third-party researchers. strong p ...Win a Dell XPS Ultra-Portable Notebook Free Registration to Insight24 Provides Access to Over 5,000 B2B Webcasts and Videos. read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 272 days ago
Via: http://www.infoworld.com | Tags: government reviewing microsofts interoperability changes comments Discuss  
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and state attorneys general are reviewing Microsoft's interoperability changes announced Feb. 21 "and intend to discuss them in more detail" with the company, according to the latest status report in the 2003 antitrust judgment against Microsoft. read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 271 days ago
Via: http://www.infoworld.com | Tags: microsofts european antitrust point man leaves apple comments Discuss  
Apple is said to be bringing on a public affairs specialist with years of experience helping Microsoft in its battle with the European Commission's competition regulators. read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 248 days ago
Via: http://lists.jammed.com | Tags: isn spooks microsofts chief security advisor comments Discuss  
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/032608-microsoft-security-concerns.htmlBy Bob BrownNetwork World03/26/2008BOSTON -- Microsoft's U.S. general manager/chief security advisor for its National Security Team thinks like a true security professional: In every bit of good news, Bret Arsenault wonders what bad news could be lurking behind it.Speaking at the Boston SecureWorld conference Wednesday, the 19-year Microsoft veteran whose job includes protecting enterprises, developers and Microsoft itself said th read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 245 days ago
Via: http://lists.jammed.com | Tags: re spooks microsofts chief security advisor comments Discuss  
Forwarded from: security curmudgeon <jericho (at) attrition.org>: http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/032608-microsoft-security-concerns.html:: By Bob Brown[..]: Speaking at the Boston SecureWorld conference Wednesday, the 19-year : Microsoft veteran whose job includes protecting enterprises, : developers and Microsoft itself said there actually is plenty of good : news on the security front. For example, his outfit scans a half : million devices (with customer permission) per month and in the firs read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 229 days ago
Via: http://www.infoworld.com | Tags: meps question microsofts eligibility govt projects comments Discuss  
European Parliament members are asking if Microsoft's antitrust violations make the company ineligible to compete for government contracts. read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 229 days ago
Via: http://www.infoworld.com | Tags: researchers microsofts captchas easy solve comments Discuss  
Microsoft's system to thwart automatic registrations of e-mail accounts leads to "a false sense of security," according to two researchers who have developed a low-cost way to break the security mechanism. read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 216 days ago
Via: http://lists.jammed.com | Tags: isn scott charney microsofts ax man comments Discuss  
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/145137/scott_charney_microsofts_ax_man.htmlBy Nancy GohringIDG News ServiceApril 25, 2008 Some people might dream of having the power to kill a product just before launch at a company the size of Microsoft, but for Scott Charney, that's just part of the job.Charney, vice president of trustworthy computing, was hired by Microsoft in early 2002 to spearhead the company's security strategy. He built a team that looks for vulnerabilities in products during developm read more »
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