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Microsoft January-2012 Patch Tuesday Released

  • Ayush Sonavane / 14 years
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Microsoft has released seven bulletins covering a total of eight vulnerabilities. Only one issue is rated ‘Critical’ and it affects Windows Media. The remaining issues affect Windows, the kernel and Microsoft’s Anti-Cross Site Scripting library. The following vulnerabilities are rated “Critical”: MS12-004 – Vulnerabilities in Windows Media Could Allow Remote Code Execution (2636391) This security […]

Microsoft November2011 Patch Tuesday Released

  • Ayush Sonavane / 14 years
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Microsoft has released only four bulletins covering a total of four vulnerabilities in its monthly security update. One of the bulletins is rated “Critical” while two are rated “Important” and the remaining one is rated “Moderate.” The only ‘Critical’ rated issue affects the Windows TCP/IP stack. It can potentially be exploited to completely compromise an […]

Microsoft announces workaround for the Duqu exploit

  • Vishal Dodke / 14 years
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Microsoft has posted a security advisory 2639658 to address the recently disclosed Windows kernel vulnerability (CVE-2011-3402) exploited by the Duqu malware. Microsoft has determined the flaw is in the processing of embedded True Type Fonts (TTFs). According to Microsoft: “The attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with […]

Microsoft October2011 Patch Tuesday Released

  • Ayush Sonavane / 14 years
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Microsoft has released 8 security bulletins covering a total of 23 vulnerabilities for software such as Microsoft .NET Framework, Microsoft Silverlight, Internet Explorer, Microsoft Forefront United Access Gateway and Microsoft Host Integration Server. 6 out of the 8 bulletins are rated ‘Important’, while 2 are rated ‘Critical’. Some of the patches indicated a required restart […]

Microsoft Kills Off a Botnet!

  • Vishal Dodke / 14 years
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In the battle against Internet Scammers, Microsoft opened a new front using the power of a U.S. court to deal a knockout blow to an emerging botnet and taking a provider of free Internet domains offline. Microsoft got the order from the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, Alexandria Division, telling top-level […]

Microsoft September2011 Patch Tuesday Released

  • Ayush Sonavane / 14 years
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Microsoft has released 5 security bulletins covering a total of 15 vulnerabilities. All of these vulnerabilities are rated ‘Important’ by Microsoft, even though three of them could lead to remote code execution. The patches address elevation of privileged and remote code execution vulnerabilities and may require a restart of Windows. Two of the bulletins address […]

Microsoft Security Bulletin MS11-057

  • Vishal Dodke / 14 years
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Microsoft has released two Critical updates: MS11-057 (Internet Explorer): This security update resolves 5 privately reported vulnerabilities and 2 publicly disclosed vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer. The most severe of these vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution if a user views a specially crafted webpage using Internet Explorer. Microsoft is not aware of any attacks leveraging […]

Microsoft Patches Mac Office Flaw in Lion

  • Ranjeet Menon / 14 years
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Microsoft has released an updated version of Communicator for the Mac that works with Apple’s new Lion operating system. Communicator for Mac 2011, version 13.1.2, was released Thursday to Microsoft’s download site and will be pushed to users via the company’s update service shortly. The new version of Communicator resolves the crash bug that afflicted […]