Archive for the ‘Windows’ Category
Internet Explorer 8 RC 1
A week ago I sat down with Dean Hachamovitch, General Manger of the IE team at Microsoft and we talked about Internet Explorer 8 RC 1. In the video below, he outlines what he believes are the compelling reason to use Internet Explorer 8.
The first reason he mentioned was this is now a stable [...]
January 22, 2009
Tags: Dean Hachamovitch, Defense in Depth, Internet Explorer 8, microsoft, Robert Vamosi, security, Windows Posted in: Uncategorized, Windows, Windows Vista, Windows XP, microsoft 
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Apple issues 8 critical QuickTime security updates
Today Apple issued a security update for QuickTime 7.6. The update addresses flaws in both the Mac OS X and Windows XP and Vista implementations of the media viewer.
Specifically, the update fixes flaws CVE-2009-0001 through CVE-2009-0007.
The eight vulnerabilities within QuickTime can all be exploited to cause an unexpected application termination (denial of service) or [...]
January 21, 2009
Tags: Apple, arbitrary code execution, CVE, Defense in Depth, denial of service, QuickTime, Robert Vamosi, security update, vulnerablity, Windows Posted in: Apple, CVE, Defense in Depth, Mac OS X, QuckTime, Robert Vamosi, Windows, arbitrary code execution, denial of service, security update, vulnerability Comments Closed
One critical patch for Patch Tuesday
Next Microsoft Patch Tuesday, January 13,2009, Microsoft will have only one patch. The patch affects Windows and the vulnerability (or vulnerabilities) could be used for remote code execution.
Microsoft says the patch will be critical, the highest rating, for Windows 2000, XP, and Server 2003 users, and moderate, the second highest rating, for Windows Vista [...]
January 8, 2009
Posted in: Patch Tuesday, Robert Vamosi, Windows, Windows Vista, Windows XP, buffer overflow, malware, microsoft, remote code execution, vulnerablity No Comments
Emergency IE patch due today
On Wednesday, Microsoft will issue an emergency, out-of-cycle security bulletin for a critical flaw affecting all versions of Internet Explorer.
The bulletin is in response to a growing threat. Since the first week in December, the AZN Trojan has been exploiting a known flaw in IE. Visitors to infected Web sites could become infected with a [...]
December 17, 2008
Posted in: AZN Trojan, Animated Cursor, Patch Tuesday, RPC, Robert Vamosi, Trojan horse, Windows, internet explorer, malware, microsoft, out-of-cycle, security, vulnerablity No Comments
