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Microsoft and Oracle release 130 vulnerabilities on the same day(13/10/2010)
Microsoft has released 16 patches to fix an unprecedented 49 vulnerabilities in its products, including Windows, Internet Explorer, MS-Office and Microsoft Word 2010. This comes on the same day that Oracle released patches for 81 vulnerabilities. Alan Bentley, SVP International at Lumension, commented: “The release of 130 vulnerabilities on the same day is like giving gold dust to the hacking community. The moment a vulnerability is disclose... [more]
Kaspersky Lab cooperates with Microsoft to close new Zero-Day Vulnerability exploited by Stuxnet worm
(16/09/2010)
Since it first emerged in July 2010, IT security specialists have watched Worm.Win32.Stuxnet closely. The virus was designed as an industrial espionage tool to gain access to the Siemens WinCC operating system, which is responsible for data collection and monitoring production. Kaspersky Lab has cooperated with Microsoft in successfully closing a serious vulnerability in Microsoft Windows. The vulnerability was classified as being of the ‘... [more]
Microsoft shares its SDL tools and expertise with the developer community(02/02/2010)
According to Microsoft Security Intelligence Report, in the last six months of 2009, 81% of reported vulnerabilities were in application software products. Increasingly crime-motivated cyber threats and the competitive marketplace means that application developers are being challenged to engineer more secure products. Developers want to do the right thing but have been put off by difficulties in acquiring specialist security expertise and assumpt... [more]
ISACA signs license agreement with Microsoft for COBIT and Val IT (01/10/2009)
ISACA has signed a license agreement with Microsoft Corp., enabling the company to use content from COBIT and Val IT, ISACA’s internationally accepted frameworks for achieving governance over and value from IT. The content appears in a new Microsoft Corp. publication titled MOF to COBIT/Val IT Comparison and Cross-Implementation Guide: How to Leverage MOF in a COBIT/Val IT Environment. Additional Microsoft Operations Framework (MOF) Framewor... [more]
Check Point provides businesses with preemptive protection against Microsoft exposure(16/09/2009)
Check Point Software Technologies Ltd has announced that Check Point IPS solutions shield customers against exploits associated with the FTP Service in Microsoft Internet Information Services vulnerability. Successful exploitation of this unpatched vulnerability could allow hackers to take over an affected company’s systems. Although no Microsoft patch is currently available for this vulnerability, Check Point Security Gateway R70 customers us... [more]
Microsoft makes progress with the security of their products but will not put security first(12/08/2009)
Windows 7's planned XP compatibility mode risks undoing much of the progress that Microsoft has made on the security front in the last few years and reveals the true colours of the OS giant. As Chet Wisniewski previously reported, we've watched Microsoft make good progress with the security of their products, from missteps like User Account Control to Kernel Patch Protection and their Security Development Lifecycle internally. However, XP m... [more]
Vulnerability in Internet Explorer 7 is being exploited in the wild(04/03/2009)
There is growing evidence of a vulnerability in Internet Explorer 7 being exploited in the wild. The vulnerability (known as MS09-002) allows malicious webpages to run code on your computer which could, of course, infect your PC, commandeer your computer to be part of a botnet, or steal your identity. Hackers are increasingly using the web to infect unsuspecting computer users, so sadly it came as no surprise to come across several websites th... [more]
USD 250,000 reward for information that leads to the capture and conviction of the authors of the Conficker worm(14/02/2009)
Microsoft's reputation is always badly shaken whenever a computer virus causes widespread problems for its users, and there have been many other occasions in the past of malware designed to exploit weaknesses in the software giant's software, or that pretended to be messages from Microsoft technical support. Microsoft is offering a USD 250,000 reward for information that leads to the capture and conviction of the authors of the Conficker worm whi... [more]
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