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Microsoft released six comprehensive security updates
This month Microsoft issued six bulletins, four critical, two important, addressing 11 distinct vulnerabilities. Organizations should focus most of their attention on …
Microsoft to release four critical bulletins
The Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification for April 2012 contains six bulletins. The number of bulletins isn’t huge but the potential harm is great. Of the …
Microsoft gains innovative security ideas at a low cost
April 1 marked the deadline for submissions for this year’s edition of Microsoft’s BlueHat Prize competition and, according to Katie Moussouris, a senior security …
Microsoft takedown of Zeus botnets missed a few C&Cs
When Microsoft, the financial services industry and Kyrus Tech teamed up to sinkhole a number of worldwide botnets using the Zeus family of malware, they managed to get the …
Manage Linux and UNIX privileged access
BeyondTrust released PowerBroker Servers Enterprise which allows organizations to seamlessly manage privileged access on Linux and UNIX systems across dynamic physical, …
Microsoft disrupts massive cybercrime operation
In its most complex effort to disrupt botnets to date, Microsoft, in collaboration with the financial services industry — including the Financial Services – Information …
Securing SharePoint
Microsoft SharePoint enables information sharing and report publishing. It also provides a search facility for users to find content. The problem is that, all too easily, any …
Working exploit for MS12-020 RDP flaw found
The vulnerability in Microsoft’s Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) implementation (MS12-020) – a patch for which has been released by during the last Patch Tuesday …
The evolution of malware and the threat landscape
The past 10 years represent a very interesting timeframe for reviewing vulnerability disclosures and ensuing changes that continue to affect risk management in IT …
Microsoft adds new protection mechanisms to IE 10
At the CanSecWest conference held last week in Vancouver, a team of vulnerability researchers from French security firm VUPEN has managed to hack Microsoft’s Internet …
Microsoft patches seven distinct vulnerabilities
We have a total of six bulletins from Microsoft this month, addressing seven distinct vulnerabilities. It’s a pretty light month, but all of your focus should be on …
Microsoft to release 6 bulletins on Patch Tuesday
The Microsoft Security Bulletin Advanced Notification for March 2012 covers six bulletins which include one critical, four important, and one moderate. Bulletin 1 is labeled …