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It's been a while since we've had a massive worm outbreak, but the potential for such an occurrence has increased significantly over the weekend with word that a wormable exploit has been made available for the recent animated cursor vulnerability in
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The Second Service Pack for Windows 2003 (both x86 and x64 editions) and for XP Professional, x64 Edition was released without much fanfare a week ago. There was initially some controversy in the Release Notes which suggested that one would need to uninstall
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This has been a fun month with all the Daylight Saving Time patching from a myriad of vendors. (I wonder if anyone has done a study to see how much energy we burned preparing to save three more weeks of daylight?) Although Microsoft is the favorite whipping
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Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2 (SP2) delivers on the Microsoft Trustworthy Computing initiative and illustrates Microsoft's commitment to continually create software products with enhanced security, increased reliability, and simplified administration.
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October 2006 is going to be a major month for Oracle . First, the database and middleware powerhouse has made some significant changes to its patch management process . Secondly, it released its quarterly set of database and application patches on October
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Yesterday, Microsoft re-released security bulletin MS06-042 because the original release introduced a buffer overflow condition for some customers. Everyone is advised to get the new update, because the buffer overflow is exploitable. Just one example
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Microsoft has announced that there will be approximately 12 vulnerabilities patched starting on August 8th, aka Patch Day. 10 of these are Windows vulnerabilities, and 2 of them are Office vulnerabilities. Time to get your testing and deployment procedures
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On August 1st, Apple Computer released Security Update 2006-004 to fix 26 security flaws, some of them with high exploit potential, in their product line. Here is a snippet from the IT Week posting. Apple patches 26 security flaws - IT Week: http://www.itweek.co.uk/vnunet/news/2161483/apple-patches-26-security-flaws
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