Posted: March 6th, 2009 | Tags: Microsoft, Patches | No Comments »
Forthcoming Tuesday, on March, 10th, Microsoft corporation plans to release the next monthly portion of patches for the software products.
As it is informed in the prior notification, next week three bulletins with the description of dangerous “holes” in Windows operating systems of various versions will be published. At least one of found out vulnerabilities has received the status “critical” and, hence, can be used malefactors for penetration on the remote computer and performance on it of any operations. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: February 25th, 2009 | Tags: Microsoft, Security holes, Vulnerabilities | No Comments »
Experts in security issues from Symantec company warn about presence of dangerous vulnerability in Microsoft Excel of recent versions, the patch for which does not exist now.
Detected “hole” theoretically allows malefactors to receive unauthorized access to the computer of a victim and to execute any harmful code on it . For the organisation of the attack it is necessary to force user to open the document generated in special way in .xls format. Such file, for example, can be placed on web page or sent by e-mail.
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Posted: February 13th, 2009 | Tags: Conficker, Microsoft | No Comments »
Today, Microsoft Corp. announced a partnership with technology industry leaders and academia to implement a coordinated, global response to the Conficker (aka Downadup) worm. Together with security researchers, Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) and operators within the Domain Name System, Microsoft coordinated a response designed to disable domains targeted by Conficker. Microsoft also announced a $250,000 reward for information that results in the arrest and conviction of those responsible for illegally launching the Conficker malicious code on the Internet.
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Posted: February 9th, 2009 | Tags: Microsoft, Security holes, Vulnerabilities | No Comments »
The release of Windows Vista has brought the new possibility intended for security of the computer – the User Account Control (UAC). However so useful possibility became at first the excellent reason of criticism to the operating system that has been linked to huge number of the warning diagnostics, which many users have considered irritating and simply disabled.
However the reduced number of messages from UAC in Windows 7 as it has appeared, still is not an advantage at all. In Windows 7 Microsoft has decided to change the policy and already in beta-versions of the future operating system began to offer less irritating UAC. Now it can receive an absolutely return estimation since blogger Long Zheng (Long Zheng), the leader of blog Start Something, has in details described the concept of attack against new UAC in Windows 7.
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Posted: February 6th, 2009 | Tags: Microsoft, Patches, Vulnerabilities | No Comments »
As it is informed in the prior notification, all four security bulletins with the description of “holes” in browser Internet Explorer, a control system of databases SQL Server, post server Exchange and package Visio which is a part of a set of office applications Microsoft Office will be published.
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