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  • Bumper crop of October patch releases

    Busy weeks for admins as Patch Tuesday joined by Adobe fixes, and Mozilla announces plug-in checking plans. This week has seen Microsoft ‘s monthly Patch Tuesday release of security updates, featuring a larger than usual 13 fixes, joined by a set of patches from Adobe for its widely-used PDF-handling software. With home and business users…

  • Microsoft steps into free AV market

    Security Essentials release creates expected storm of words. Microsoft ‘s release of its free Security Essentials product this week sparked the expected barrage of views and opinions from all angles, from those hailing the release as the end of the AV industry to those slating the free product as inadequate and pointless. The new release…

  • Patch Tuesday brings little relief from browser exploits

    Six fixes issued, but new IE zero day emerges along with Firefox flaw. Microsoft has issued its monthly ‘Patch Tuesday’ security update, with some serious browser flaws patched, but a new IE zero-day has been seen being exploited in the wild, and Firefox users have also been warned about a serious vulnerability. The Patch Tuesday…

  • Another IE zero day exploited

    Second DirectShow vulnerability in six weeks labelled ‘extremely critical’. Microsoft has issued an advisory on a serious vulnerability in an ActiveX control in its Internet Explorer browser, the second zero-day alert in the same area of the product in recent months. The issue has been flagged as ‘extremely critical’ by vulnerability watchers at Secunia ,…

  • Eight fixes for April Patch Tuesday release

    Five critical updates in latest monthly patch release. The April Patch Tuesday release from Microsoft , revealed this week, contained five updates rated ‘critical’, as well as two deemed to be ‘important’ and one assigned a less urgent ‘moderate’ rating. The five critical patches cover vulnerabilities in the Microsoft WordPad and Office text converters, vulnerabilities…

  • AV-Comparatives releases latest detection figures

    Large collection test shows major improvement from AV giants. Independent testing organisation AV-Comparatives has released its latest bi-annual detection test figures, with 17 products included in the field and a test set containing a massive 1.3 million samples. The first set of results of 2009 showed notable improvements for major players Symantec and McAfee .…

  • March Patch Tuesday followed by PDF viewer patches

    Major kernel issue and PDF problems fixed, spreadsheet software remains vulnerable. Microsoft released the March security bulletin this week, with the monthly Patch Tuesday updates rather lighter than usual. On the same day, Adobe released some important patches for its widely used PDF viewing software. From Microsoft came a single ‘critical’ fix for the Windows…

  • MS forms anti-Conficker alliance

    Industry group to combine efforts, reward offered. Microsoft has announced a collaborative effort to combat the Conficker (aka Downadup) botnet, the widespread infection making headlines over the past few weeks. In addition, Microsoft is offering a reward for information leading to the arrest of the botnet’s creators. The partnership includes web management groups such as…

  • IE fixed as usual in Patch Tuesday release

    Browser should be treated as special case, say some. The February ‘Patch Tuesday’ security bulletin from Microsoft this week contained four patches, two of them marked ‘Critical’, of which one was a ‘cumulative’ set of fixes for a selection of problems with the Internet Explorer browser. With flaws in the ubiquitous web-surfing tool a regular…

  • MS report finds phishing revenues overhyped

    Huge earnings may be myth, say researchers. A report from Microsoft analysing the potential income of phishers claims that the amounts taken from duped victims of online scams may not be as high as numerous recent surveys have estimated. A duo of researchers looked into various aspects of the phishing economy, and found that figures…