Microsoft today announced it will deliver seven security updates, one critical, to patch 20 vulnerabilities in Office, SharePoint Server, SQL Server, Windows and other parts of its product lineup. "It looks like an Office month," said ...
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Microsoft has fixed 26 vulnerabilities in its software products, including several considered critical, the company said on Tuesday in its monthly security patch report. The security holes, described in five critical and four important ...
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Microsoft on Monday issued a security advisory that confirmed in-the-wild attacks are exploiting an unpatched bug in Internet Explorer. The software maker is working on a fix. The advisory addressed the “zero-day” ...
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Criminals broke into an Adobe server and provided two pieces of malware with a digital certificate that attest to them being legitimate code. As a result of the breach, the company will revoke the certificate next Thursday and will update ...
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Microsoft has patched 20 vulnerabilities in Word, Office, Windows, SharePoint Server, SQL Server and other products in its portfolio, including a critical bug in the company’s popular Word programme and another already used to attack ...
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Computerworld-Microsoft today patched a dozen vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer(IE),Windows,Word and Exchange,fixing flaws in the new IE10 for the first time and crushing bugs in Windows 8 and Windows RT for the second month running. ...
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Computerworld - Adobe has changed its schedule for releasing Flash Player security updates to coincide with Microsoft's Patch Tuesday schedule. "Microsoft and Adobe are now officially married," joked Andrew Storms, director of security ...
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Microsoft today patched 19 vulnerabilities in Windows,Internet Explorer 9(IE9),Excel and the.Net development framework,including four flaws in the just-released Windows 8 and its tablet spin-off Windows RT. Of Tuesday's six security ...
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Computerworld-Microsoft today announced it will issue six security updates next week,including three for Windows 8 and its tablet spin-off Windows RT. The half-dozen updates will patch 19 vulnerabilities in Windows,Internet ...
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It's not exactly the type of advertisement most people would understand. For sale:"Our first 0day for Win8+IE10 with HiASLR/AntiROP/DEP&Prot Mode sandbox bypass(Flash not needed)."It's part of a recent message on Twitter from Vupen,a ...
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Windows 7's malware infection rate climbed by as much as 182% this year, Microsoft said today. But even with that dramatic increase, Windows 7 remained two to three times less likely to fall to hacker attack than the aged Windows XP. ...
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Computerworld - Microsoft on Wednesday released a stopgap defense that protects Internet Explorer (IE) against attacks until the company issues a patch on Friday. The update will fix five flaws, including one revealed by a security ...
Microsoft today said it will issue two security updates next week for its Visual Studio development platform and its System Center Configuration Manager, the company's enterprise patch and software distribution console. The ...
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Computerworld-Oracle today issued an emergency update to patch the critical vulnerabilities hackers have been using in increasing numbers to hijack Windows PCs. According to Rapid7,the security firm that maintains the Metasploit ...
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Computerworld-Microsoft last week warned IT administrators that critical vulnerabilities in code licensed from Oracle could give attackers access to Exchange Server 2007 and Exchange Server 2010 systems. Oracle patched the vulnerabilities ...
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