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Microsoft Patch Tuesday

Please click here and read about what patches will be released.

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Attacks, Exploits and Patches

Widespread Web Site Attacks Reported Following the reports of high profile web sites like syfy.com and php-nuke.org being compromised, another widespread attack on web servers has been reported. The attacks compromise sites running WordPress and other popular blog software. The attack mechanism is not yet known, but clients should ensure that the latest WordPress version [...]

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April Patches and Updates

1. Denial of Service Conditions in Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft SMTP Service (MS10-024 CVE-2010-0024) Microsoft Windows SMTP Service and Microsoft Exchange are vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by the improper handling of DNS Mail Exchanger (MX) resource records by the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol component. As SMTP services are often exposed to the [...]

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MS10-002

Microsoft has released MS10-002 today. The update addresses 7 privately reported and 1 publicly reported vulnerability which is associated with the widely publicized attacks associated with Security Advisory 979352. There are four (4) Uninitialized Memory Corruption Vulnerabilities, two (2) HTML Object Memory Corruption Vulnerabilities, one (1) XSS Filter Script Handling Vulnerability, and one (1) URL [...]

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Security Report

Microsoft Announces out of cycle Security Update schedule Microsoft issued their Advanced Notification Service (ANS) notification to inform customers of the impending release of MS10-002 on January 21st, 2010. The update will be cumulative, in advance of the normal February release Cycle, and is intended to protect customers from the known, widely publicized attacks associated [...]

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Microsoft IIS and Symantec Alert Management System

A vulnerability was recently reported in Microsoft IIS. Microsoft has since completed its investigation and “found that there is no vulnerability in IIS.” However, “there is an inconsistency in IIS 6 only in how it handles semicolons in URLs. It’s this inconsistency that the claims have focused on, saying this enables an attacker to bypass [...]

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Microsoft Security Essentials

Anti-malware testing group AV-Comparatives.org not only gave Microsoft Security Essentials a top rating for malware removal, but now they’ve given it their best ranking in their performance test as well. AV-Comparatives.org ran a series of real-world tests running through common scenarios like downloading, extracting, copying, and encoding files, installing and launching applications, and they also ran [...]

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AZ IT Management and the Construction Industry

Arizona IT Management understands the construction industry and the impact the economy has taken on them. Many competitors have been estimating very low, near impossible estimates. Forcing many to rely on savings and having to cut the overhead costs of a fully staffed office. Arizona IT Management can help. We know the costs of running and [...]

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Adobe Threats

Adobe is indicating they have received reports of active exploitation of a 0day vulnerability affecting Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9.2 and earlier versions (CVE-2009-4324). We encourage our clients to use caution when opening PDF files. Links to malicious documents can easily be sent through spam or through links on seemingly non-malicious Web sites. We also [...]

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Microsoft Security Bulletins for December 2009

Microsoft has released a few new patches. Please update your systems. Critical Level Microsoft Security Bulletin MS09-071 (Critical): Vulnerabilities in Internet Authentication Service Could Allow Remote Code Execution (974318) This security update resolves two privately reported vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows. These vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution if messages received by the Internet Authentication Service [...]

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