Security Alerts




Microsoft Black Tuesday: Microsoft Excel and Movie Maker Files Threaten Windows Users.

The Bulletin Summary for March highlights two important security bulletins, which fix code execution vulnerabilities in both Microsoft Excel (part of the Office package) and Microsoft Movie Maker. (more…)

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March 9, 2010 — Category: Security Alerts

Don’t press F1 if a website tells you to.

Microsoft warned customers of a zero day vulnerability that affects Windows 2000, XP, and Server 2003. This flaw is exploited by enticing a user to press F1 after being lured to a malicious website. (more…)

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March 6, 2010 — Category: Security Alerts

Microsoft will only release a pair of non-Critical updates for March Patch Day

Microsoft plans to release updates for Windows and Office next Tuesday, March 9. (more…)

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March 6, 2010 — Category: Security Alerts

The latest Firefox (3.6) already suffers from a mysterious zero day vulnerability

Mozilla recently released Firefox 3.6, their supposedly their best and most security version of Firefox yet. However, Russian security researchers have already found a mysterious zero day vulnerability that affects this new release. (more…)

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February 26, 2010 — Category: Security Alerts

Adobe Download Manager vulnerability could affect any Adobe software users

If you’ve downloaded programs like Adobe Reader and Flash Player, you have downloaded Adobe Download Manager too. Unforutnately, Download Manager suffers for a code execution vulnerability (more…)

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February 26, 2010 — Category: Security Alerts

Microsoft Black Tuesday: Thirteen security bulletins make for an unlucky February Patch Day

Microsoft released thirteen security bulletins, fixing over 26 vulnerabilities in Windows and Office. Microsoft rates four of the bulletins as Critical, seven as Important and one as Moderate. (more…)

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February 9, 2010 — Category: Security Alerts

Microsoft Black Tuesday: Thirteen security bulletins make for an unlucky February Patch Day

Microsoft released thirteen security bulletins, fixing over 26 vulnerabilities in Windows and Office. Microsoft rates four of the bulletins as Critical, seven as Important and one as Moderate. (more…)

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February 9, 2010 — Category: Security Alerts

Hackers in China rumored to have hacked Google with IE zero day

Last week, big news surfaced about Chinese hackers breaching Google, and many other well-known technology companies, possibly stealing source code and intellectual property. This week it has become clear that a zero day IE vulnerability was at fault (more…)

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January 21, 2010 — Category: Security Alerts

Microsoft Black Tuesday: First Patch Day of 2010 not so black

A Windows component called the Embedded OpenType (EOT) Font Engine suffers from an integer overflow vulnerability. To any major extent, it really only affects Windows 2000 (2K) administrators (more…)

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January 12, 2010 — Category: Security Alerts

Microsoft Black Tuesday: First Patch Day of 2010 not so black

A Windows component called the Embedded OpenType (EOT) Font Engine suffers from an integer overflow vulnerability. To any major extent, it really only affects Windows 2000 (2K) administrators (more…)

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January 12, 2010 — Category: Security Alerts