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  • Quiet Patch Tuesday

    Four flaws fixed in minimal security update. Microsoft ‘s monthly ‘Patch Tuesday’ release of security updates for Windows and other software has been fairly quiet this month – with four patches released, only one of which is labelled ‘Critical’. The most serious issue is a vulnerability in the Microsoft Agent usability tool, which could be…

  • MS gaining fast in AV-Comparatives tests

    Detection rates up 7% in six months, more improvement predicted. AV-Comparatives have released the results of their latest test of detection rates, pitting 17 scanners already known to perform well against their huge collection of malware. The most improvement over the previous run, which took place in February, was shown by Microsoft , whose score…

  • AVK tops latest AV-Test charts

    Top four beat 99% in large collection scan. Testers at AV-Test.org have run 29 products over a massive collection of malware samples, with detection rates measured against 874,822 items including worms, trojans, bots and backdoors. The top two were multi-engine products, with GDATA ‘s AntiVirusKit ranked number one with 99.88% detection, and the Webwasher gateway…

  • 14 flaws fixed in bumper Patch Tuesday

    Critical remote execution and hijack holes closed. Microsoft ‘s monthly ‘Patch Tuesday’ security bulletin includes nine separate bulletins this month, covering a total of 14 vulnerabilities in the Windows operating system and other Microsoft software, including three flaws in the Internet Explorer browser and one in the Excel spreadsheet software. Other vulnerabilities marked at the…

  • Microsoft files adware system patent

    Ads could be targeted at users based on local system data. Microsoft has filed a patent application for a new method of targeting advertising, using information on the contents of a local computer rather than interactions with the web. While most current advertising relies on watching an individual’s web browsing habits, selecting the type of…

  • Microsoft opens security ‘portal’

    New site carries prevalence data, updates and malware resources. Security teams at Microsoft have been busy this week, with the full unveiling of the Microsoft Malware Protection Center , a portal site bringing together a range of security resources, and also the release to beta of version 2.0 of the company’s home-user security product, Windows…

  • Controversy over IE-to-Firefox exploit

    MS and Mozilla in row over blame for cross-browser attack. An exploit which involves browsing to a malicious website using Internet Explorer , but then launches an attack via a loophole in Mozilla Firefox , is causing controversy over which piece of software is ‘vulnerable’. The attack, apparently discovered simultaneously by two separate groups of…

  • 7 flaws fixed in July Patch Tuesday release

    Critical patches issued for Excel, Active Directory and .NET. Microsoft has released a total of seven patches in its monthly ‘Patch Tuesday’ security update, with three of the vulnerable products covered marked as ‘critical’. The most significant problems are in Excel spreadsheet software, which has three separate vulnerabilities fixed this month, each allowing remote code…

  • Fake updates and phony postcards carry malware

    Microsoft patch and greetings card spams bring more trojans. Several spam runs posing as vulnerability alerts from Microsoft have been spotted in the last week, with links to supposed patches in fact leading to malware downloads. Since then, a resurgence of the trojans dubbed the ‘Storm Worm’, seeded in several waves earlier in the year,…

  • 4 critical flaws patched this Patch Tuesday

    Microsoft’s June Security Bulletin covers range of vulnerabilities. Microsoft ‘s latest ‘Patch Tuesday’ security bulletin, released yesterday, includes fixes for six vulnerabilities, four of which are rated ‘critical’. In the June release two of the fixes plug holes in Vista and earlier versions of the operating system, a third patch fixes a vulnerability in Internet…