Microsoft patches 64 security vulnerabilities

Microsoft patches 64 security vulnerabilities


Microsoft patches 64 security vulnerabilities

Posted: 12 Apr 2011 10:58 AM PDT

Today Microsoft released 17 bulletins to address 64 security vulnerabilities. The bulletins address vulnerabilities in Windows, Office, Internet Explorer, Visual Studio, .NET Framework and GDI+. Micro...

Lack of admin rights mitigates most Microsoft vulnerabilities

Posted: 12 Apr 2011 09:01 AM PDT

The removal of administrator rights from Windows users is a mitigating factor in 75 percent of Critical Windows 7 vulnerabilities. Microsoft and its partners regularly identify new security vulne...

Personal info of 3.5 million Texans was accessible to public

Posted: 12 Apr 2011 08:44 AM PDT

The records of about three and a half million Texans were erroneously placed on the server with personally identifying information, and the Texas Comptroller's office is sending letters beginning Wedn...

Barracuda Networks breached by automated SQL injection attack

Posted: 12 Apr 2011 08:06 AM PDT

Barracuda Networks is the latest security firm to be shamed by a successful attack against its assets. Barracuda's chief marketing officer Michael Perone has confirmed the breach in a post on th...

Personal data of 3,000 US Airways pilots leaked by insider?

Posted: 12 Apr 2011 06:37 AM PDT

A data breach that goes back to October 2009 has recently been brought to light by the US Airline Pilots Association (USAPA), which admitted that it has been working for months now with the FBI in ord...

Holes found in majority of leading network firewalls

Posted: 12 Apr 2011 06:10 AM PDT

Firewalls are well understood as the main barriers between an organization's internal and external networks. Over the past 25 years, they have become the foundation of perimeter security and are consi...

Email malware jumps 400% after Rustock takedown

Posted: 12 Apr 2011 05:58 AM PDT

Malware sent via email increased by 400% in the last week of March 2011, Commtouch reported today. The significant increase was detected two weeks after the takedown of the Rustock botnet had resulted...

Enterprises don't understand IT risk

Posted: 12 Apr 2011 05:42 AM PDT

A global survey of more than 1,240 IT decision makers at large enterprises – 72% of which have more than 1,000 employees – found that one third (33%) of respondents do not believe their organizations ...

Secunia Vulnerability Intelligence Manager 3.1 released

Posted: 12 Apr 2011 05:31 AM PDT

Secunia announced enhancements to the award-winning Secunia Vulnerability Intelligence Manager (VIM). The Secunia VIM is compliant with the vulnerability database requirements as given in the NIST ...

Ransom Trojan locks Windows

Posted: 12 Apr 2011 03:16 AM PDT

Ransomware is slowly becoming quite a problem, and the latest one spotted by F-Secure tries a rather innovative approach: it locks the victims out of Windows and doesn't allow them boot Windows in eit...

7 steps to protect against online fraud

Posted: 12 Apr 2011 12:33 AM PDT

Of the three million respondents to a SonicWALL quiz, only 7.4% answered all of the questions correctly. When asked to determine whether a suspect email was a phishing e-mail or a legitimate email, re...

IEEE launches 40Gb/s ethernet optical interface standard

Posted: 12 Apr 2011 12:26 AM PDT

IEEE announced the ratification of IEEE 802.3bgTM-2011, 40Gb/s Ethernet Single-mode fiber optical interface, a new standard enabling 40 Gb/s serial Ethernet interfaces to be deployed on single-mode fi...

New HP application security solutions

Posted: 12 Apr 2011 12:10 AM PDT

HP announced the first application security analysis solution that discovers the root cause of software vulnerabilities by observing attacks in real-time. HP Fortify Real-Time Hybrid Analysis, used...

B-Sides Vienna welcomes hackers in June

Posted: 12 Apr 2011 12:07 AM PDT

B-Sides Vienna is a hacker conference targeted at security researchers, system and network operators, application developers, hardware hackers, hackerspace members, and generally open-minded folks wor...

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