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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 289 days ago
Via: http://www.infoworld.com | Tags: super tuesday groups say states face evoting risks comments Discuss  
Six U.S. states participating in Super Tuesday primary elections are at high risk for voting-machine malfunction or tampering because they don't have paper backups, according to a report released by the Verified Voting Foundation and Common Cause. read more »
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Category: vulnerabilities | Posted by Avatar Staff 283 days ago
Via: http://www.symantec.com | Tags: microsoft patch tuesday january comments Discuss  
Hello everyone and welcome to this month’s blog on the Microsoft patch releases. This is a very light month; Microsoft is releasing only two bulletins that cover a total of three vulnerabilities affecting multiple flavors of Windows. The most severe of the three issues involves the handling of TCP/IP multicast packets. An attacker may be able to exploit this issue to remotely compromise a vulnerable computer. The remaining issues include a denial-of-service vulnerability involving ICMP and a local privile read more »
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Category: vulnerabilities | Posted by Avatar Staff 283 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 282 days ago
Via: http://www.symantec.com | Tags: microsoft patch tuesday february comments Discuss  
Hello and welcome to this month’s blog on the Microsoft patch releases. This is a fairly heavy month as Microsoft is releasing 11 bulletins that cover a total of 17 vulnerabilities. All the critical issues (10 in total) require some sort of user interaction to trigger an exploit. This can include following a link, viewing a Web page, or opening a malicious file. We have seen all of these types of issues before, so nothing new or overly exciting here. But the sheer number of critical issues being addressed read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 281 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 259 days ago
Via: http://www.infoworld.com | Tags: intel prepares eu antitrust hearing tuesday comments Discuss  
Intel is preparing to defend some of its questionable business dealings with PC makers at an antitrust hearing with European regulators and competitors next week. Questions about its dealings with retailers will have to wait for another day. read more »
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Category: blogs | Posted by Avatar Staff 254 days ago
Via: http://www.symantec.com | Tags: microsoft patch tuesday march comments Discuss  
Hello and welcome to this month’s blog on the Microsoft patch releases. This month, Microsoft will release four bulletins that cover a total of 12 vulnerabilities. Of those, 11 are rated ‘critical’ and one is rated ‘important’. Two of the critical issues affect Office Web Components and have the potential to be the worst of the bunch. Office Web Components are installed as part of multiple applications. The vulnerabilities affecting them can be triggered by simply visiting a web page with some attacker-co read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 254 days ago
Via: http://feeds.ziffdavisenterprise.com | Tags: patch tuesday plugs excel security holes comments Discuss  
Microsoft patches seven Excel vulnerabilities that leave users open to exploit....Villanova University Six Sigma & IT Certificate Programs 100% Online programs in Six Sigma, IS Security, CISSP Prep, Business Analysis, Proj. Mgmt. and more! read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 254 days ago
Via: http://go.theregister.com | Tags: critical outlook excel bugs star march patch tuesday comments Discuss  
Black Tuesday updates focus on MS OfficeMicrosoft released four updates on Tuesday as part of its regular Patch Tuesday update cycle.… read more »
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Category: blogs | Posted by Avatar Staff 228 days ago
Via: http://blog.washingtonpost.com | Tags: opera updates black tuesday preview comments Discuss  
Opera this week released a new version of the Web browser to correct at least two remotely exploitable security vulnerabilities. Separately, Microsoft said it plans to release eight updates on Tuesday as part of its regular monthly patch cycle. The latest version of Opera -- 9.27 -- is available at this link. More details on the vulnerabilities fixed are here and here. Microsoft said it most likely release eight updates, five of which will carry...Please click on the title to continue reading this entry. read more »
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Category: blogs | Posted by Avatar Staff 226 days ago
Via: http://www.symantec.com | Tags: microsoft patch tuesday april comments Discuss  
Hello and welcome to this month’s blog on the Microsoft patch releases. This time the vendor is releasing eight bulletins that cover a total of 10 vulnerabilities. Of those, six are rated “critical”, three are “important” and one is "moderate". Although all the critical issues are noteworthy, the vulnerability in VBScript/JScript and the vulnerabilities in GDI could be the worst of the bunch. The components are installed on multiple flavors of Windows and are relatively easy to exploit. Customers are advi read more »
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