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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 289 days ago
Via: http://www.infoworld.com | Tags: google updates pricing for postini apps comments Discuss  
Google announced new pricing for its Postini hosted e-mail security and compliance management package on Tuesday in hopes of pushing more customers to consider a move to the SaaS (software as a service) offering. read more »
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Category: blogs | Posted by Avatar Staff 288 days ago
Via: http://blog.washingtonpost.com | Tags: adobe apple issue security updates comments Discuss  
Adobe has released an update to its free Adobe Reader application that corrects more than two dozen bugs, including several security holes. Separately, Apple this week pushed out a patch to plug a single security vulnerability in its iPhoto application. Adobe Reader 8.1.2 is available for Windows, Mac, Linux and Solaris systems. Adobe hasn't released much information about the changes, other than the brief synopsis listed here. The latest version is available here. A note...Please click on the title to con read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 287 days ago
Via: http://www.infoworld.com | Tags: microsoft readying slew of critical updates for next week comments Discuss  
After kicking off 2008 with just two security updates in January, Microsoft plans to release one of its largest bundles of patches ever next Tuesday. read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 287 days ago
Via: http://go.theregister.com | Tags: firefox updates blitzes trio of critical bugs comments Discuss  
It's raining security updatesMozilla pushed out a new update of Firefox on Thursday that fixes ten security vulnerabilities, three of which are deemed critical.… read more »
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Category: blogs | Posted by Avatar Staff 287 days ago
Via: http://blog.washingtonpost.com | Tags: mozilla skype issue updates comments Discuss  
It seems as though every maker of desktop software applications is issuing updates to its products this week. Skype, the popular voice-over-Internet telephone service+software has a new version that squashes a security bug. Meanwhile Mozilla is pushing out an update to its Firefox Web browser that plugs at least 10 vulnerabilities. The Skype flaw, discovered by researcher Aviv Raff, stems from the fact that Skype uses Internet Explorer's Web control to render internal and external...Please click on the tit read more »
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Category: blogs | Posted by Avatar Staff 283 days ago
Via: http://blog.washingtonpost.com | Tags: apple releases tiger leopard security updates comments Discuss  
Apple is pushing out updates to plug at least 10 different security holes in computers powered by its Tiger (OS X 10.4.x) and Leopard (10.5.x) operating systems. Mac users can grab the latest patches via Software Update or directly from Apple Downloads. One of the updates fixes eight vulnerabilities in OS X Leopard and Leopard Server. The other patch plugs four security holes in OS X Tiger. Among the more interesting flaws corrected in the...Please click on the title to continue reading this entry. read more »
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Category: blogs | Posted by Avatar Staff 283 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: vulnerabilities | Posted by Avatar Staff 273 days ago
Via: http://secunia.com | Tags: vmware esx server multiple updates comments Discuss  
VMware has issued updates for VMware ESX Server. These fix some vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to bypass certain security restrictions and by malicious people to disclose potentially sensitive information, cause a DoS (Denial of Service), or compromise a vulnerable system.Be sure to check if your system is missing security updates or have insecure applications installed:http://secunia.com/software_inspector/Feature Overview - The Secunia Software Inspector: * Detects inse read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 272 days ago
Via: http://www.infoworld.com | Tags: microsoft stop vista updates endless reboot comments Discuss  
Although Microsoft has yet to fix an update that sent some Windows Vista machines into endless reboots, it spelled out on Friday several workarounds users can apply to regain control of those PCs. read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 249 days ago
Via: http://lists.jammed.com | Tags: isn nsa updates selinux comments Discuss  
http://www.gcn.com/online/vol1_no1/45973-1.htmlBy Joab JacksonGCN.com03/14/08 The National Security Agency has released a new version of Security Enhanced Linux (SElinux), NSA program manager Stephen Smalley announced on the software's mailing list last week.This new version, build R080305, is the first update of the software since last September.New features in the update include improved error reporting, reduced memory usage, some new policy capabilities and additions to the library.SELinux is a patch fo read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 245 days ago
Via: http://lists.jammed.com | Tags: isn microsoft updates excel security patch comments Discuss  
http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2212451/microsoft-issues-securityBy Shaun Nichols in Californiavnunet.com20 March 2008Microsoft has issued an update for a flaw previously addressed in Excel, admitting that the patch caused errors.The company patched the 'critical' flaw in last week's Patch Tuesday release, but the update caused Excel to encounter a new performance problem.Microsoft acknowledged that the vulnerability could allow an attacker to remotely execute code on the target system.The flaw lies in t read more »
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