Malware City/News

Aug
4

Microsoft sticks to plan, denies emergency patch for XP SP2

Filed Under: VULNERABILITIES
Some had hoped it would bend the rules to fix critical flaw

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Malware City/News

Sep
10

Microsoft warns of SMB vulnerability in Windows Server 2008 and Vista

Filed Under: VULNERABILITIES
Microsoft has confirmed the security vulnerability in its implementation of the SMB2 protocol reported yesterday, and has gone one better, noting that the bug can be exploited to inject and execute code

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Malware City/News

Aug
19

Windows WINS attacks in the wild

Filed Under: VULNERABILITIES
The "critical" WINS vulnerability that Microsoft issued a patch for last week is now being exploited actively in the wild, according to the SANS Institute.

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Malware City/News

Aug
14

Microsoft: 2 year response to critical 0-day hole

Filed Under: VULNERABILITIES
It turns out Microsoft has known about the critical security vulnerability in its Office Web Components (OWC), which was fixed last patch day, for more than two years.

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Malware City/News

Feb
6

Microsoft Patch Tuesday for February 2009: four bulletins

Filed Under: SECURITY ALERTS
Microsoft will patch four vulnerabilities this Tuesday. Two are rated as "Critical" and the other two are marked "Important." Details inside

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Malware City/News

Jan
14

Microsoft issues first Windows 7 beta patch

Filed Under: SECURITY ALERTS
Microsoft Corp. today issued its first patch for the just-released Windows 7 beta, but it passed on plugging a hole in an important file-sharing protocol that it fixed in older versions of the operating system.

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Malware City/News

Jan
9

Microsoft Patch Tuesday for January 2008: one bulletin

Filed Under: SECURITY SOFTWARE
Microsoft will issue a single Security Bulletin on Tuesday, and it will host a webcast to address customer questions on these bulletins the following day.

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Malware City/News

Jul
9

Fix found for net security flaw

Filed Under: VULNERABILITIES
Computer experts have released software to tackle a security glitch in the internet's addressing system. The flaw, discovered by accident, would allow criminals to redirect users to fake webpages, even if they typed the correct address into a browser.

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