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• One Month Later, Apple Updates Java

  
  Security Watch — Authority: 535
  For reasons not entirely clear, Apple issues Java for their own operating systems rather than Sun. As a result, when Sun comes out with updates to Java it takes Apple some time to issue them for their own systems. The most recent update of Java to (internal) version 1.6.0_17-b04 fixed 23 vulnerabilities. Apples Java ...
  10 hours ago

• Adobe to Update Flash and Air Next Tuesday [Updated]

  
  Security Watch — Authority: 535
  As part of their semi-regular Patch Tuesdays, Adobe will release updates next Tuesday for Flash and Air . Versions 10.0.32.18 and earlier of Flash are affected, as are versions 1.5.2 and earlier of AIR. All platforms are affected.Adobe describes these updates as critical.After the updates are released the advisory ...
  12 hours ago

• 6 Security Bulletins, 3 Critical, From Microsoft Next Tuesday

  
  Security Watch — Authority: 535
  Next Tuesday, December 8, Microsoft will release 6 security bulletins and software updates to address the vulnerabilities described in them . 3 of the bulletins have a maximum rating of critical and 3 are rated important.The three critical updates all are listed as permitting remote code execution. One affects all ...
  12 hours ago

• Prevx Backs Off of Tying Microsoft to "Black Screen of Death"

  
  Security Watch — Authority: 535
  Prevx has cleared Microsoft of causing the so-called KSOD or "black screen of death," claiming that the original blog post was "taken out of context". "As you will see, at no time have we categorically stated that thesepatches are the cause of the Black Screen problem," Prevx said. "We shared ourinitial findings ...
  1 day ago

• Microsoft Officially Denies Updates Responsible for KSOD

  
  Security Watch — Authority: 535
  In the Microsoft Security Response Center Blog the company states that neither their updates nor the Malicious Software Removal Tool are responsible for the recent reports of "Black Screen of Death" (KSOD) . This confirms the unofficial denial I reported in my last entry on the subject .Security software vendor ...
  2 days ago

• Top Web Sites Moving to Mitigate SSL/TLS Bug

  
  Security Watch — Authority: 535
  Netcraft reports that 24 of the top 100 HTTPS sites have disabled renegotiation , blocking a recently-revealed flaw in the SSL3/TLS protocols. There is some controversy over how much of a real-world danger that flaw represents . Disabling renegotiations blocks the attacks with only a theoretical costA lot of work is ...
  3 days ago

• Its Holiday Cyber Theft Season

  
  Security Watch — Authority: 535
  Today is Cyber Monday , a marketing creation of the National Retail Federation as the Monday after Black Friday. The Internet is full of deals! deals! deals!Sadly, its full of scams too. How do you stay safe?Check out our feature on Safe Online Shopping by Neil Rubenking. Its full of guidelines that will help you ...
  3 days ago

• The Other Patch Tuesday is the Fourth

  
  Security Watch — Authority: 535
  Everyone knows about Patch Tuesday on the second Tuesday of the month, but its less-known that Microsoft regularly releases non-security updates on the 4th Tuesday of the month. You might have noticed Automatic Updates rebooting your system with several non-security updates just this Tuesday.Ive never heard an ...
  1 week ago

• Whitelisting in Windows Moves More to Mainstream

  
  Security Watch — Authority: 535
  The classic approach on PCs to malware is blacklisting: anti-malware products scan all files that come into the system to see whether they match the signature of a known-bad program. Perhaps they analyze the file for more generic bad behaviors. Everything else is allowed to proceed. This approach was never perfect, ...
  1 week ago

• Microsoft Advises on IE6/IE7 Vulnerability

  
  Security Watch — Authority: 535
  Microsoft has released an advisory for the vulnerability in Internet Explorer disclosed by third parties over the weekend . No actual attacks in the wild using this vulnerability are known yet.
  1 week ago

• Unpatched Vulnerability and Exploit Published For IE on XP, 2003

  
  Security Watch — Authority: 535
  A post to the Bugtraq mailing list contains exploit code for what Symantec claims is a new vulnerability affecting Internet Explorer versions 6 and 7 .Symantecs anti-malware products detect this attack as Bloodhound.Exploit.129 . They have not detected the attack in the wild yet, but that could change at any time. ...
  1 week ago

• Google Fixes Chrome Flaw Reported by Microsoft

  
  Security Watch — Authority: 535
  Google has released an update to Google Chrome Frame that fixes several crashes and other bugs and one High-severity security issue. Google Chrome Frame , in case you dont remember, is a plug-in version of the Chrome browser that runs inside Internet Explorer. If a web page uses features unsupported by IE, like the ...
  2 weeks ago

• So-Called Flash Vulnerability Retired by SecurityFocus

  
  Security Watch — Authority: 535
  SecurityFocus, a prominent site owned by Symantec, has retired a recent report of a vulnerability in Flash .The report, which we recently criticized , speaks of a vulnerability related to the same-origin policy. The fear is that malicious flash code can access privileged data on the web servers domain, so that code ...
  2 weeks ago

• Firefox 3.6 Locks Down Component Directory

  
  Security Watch — Authority: 535
  Mozilla is announcing in the Mozilla Security Blog that version 3.6, currently in beta, will block a method used by some developers to extend Firefox .Many Mozilla products support a cross-platform installation method for extensions called XPInstall . Installer modules are ZIP files and have a .XPI extension ...
  2 weeks ago

• Borderlands is Year’s Fastest-Selling Original IP, Patch 1.01 Released

  
  StuffWeLike.com — Authority: 135
  If you’re playing Borderlands (and stats say that you most likely are), you’ll be really glad to hear of some of the improvements here.Gearbox has announced just today that Borderlands is officially the year’s fastest-selling original IP. Yes, I said “Whuh?” too, and realised that most of the major games ...
  2 weeks ago

• Win7 Pirating Tools Out, Malware to Follow

  
  Security Watch — Authority: 535
  Two different tools are out to bypass copy protection in Windows 7 according to the My Digital Life blog . RemoveWAT and Chew-WGA both allow Windows to run without activation by tampering with the activation software. A report in Computerworld .on the tools says that Microsoft is aware of them and will deal with them ...
  2 weeks ago

• Reported Flash Vulnerability Not a Flash Vulnerability

  
  Security Watch — Authority: 535
  A real security flaw is being touted widely as a vulnerability in Flash .The problem comes on web sites that let users upload content. Many sites will upload the content to the same domain as the service itself. Since Flash has a same-origin policy, meaning that it can only operate in the context of the domain from ...
  2 weeks ago

• Is There a Windows 7 Zero-Day Exploit?

  
  Security Watch — Authority: 535
  Many reports are circulating calling the vulnerability revealed yesterday in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 a "zero-day exploit." This is a poor use of the term and an exaggeration."Zero-Day" is a controversial term in any case, but it refers to actual attacks, not to vulnerability disclosures. The report ...
  2 weeks ago

• SMB2 Exploit Provides Remote DOS Attack Against Windows 7

  
  Security Watch — Authority: 535
  A researcher has disclosed a remotely-exploitable crash bug in the most recent versions of Windows , Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. Older versions of Windows, including XP, Vista and Server 2003, are not affected.A malformed netbios packet, sent over the local network, causes the network code in Windows to go ...
  2 weeks ago

• Safari 4.0.4 Plugs Security Holes on Mac and Windows

  
  Security Watch — Authority: 535
  Apple has released Safari 4.0.4 for Mac and Windows to address 7 vulnerabilities disclosed today. Several of the vulnerabilities are in support libraries and have already been addressed in yesterdays larger OS X updates , but even OS X users need to update again through Software Updates or the Apple Safari Download ...
  3 weeks ago

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