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Microsoft admits it knew about, but didn't patch, bugs Microsoft's security team acknowledged Tuesday that it knew of bugs in its Jet Database Engine as far bask as 2005 but did not patch the problems because it thought it had blocked the obvious attack vector.A re Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Microsoft patched critical Windows bug in XP SP3 early The appearance and disappearance of a Windows XP installation snafu indicates that Microsoft patched a critical vulnerability in XP's still-unfinished Service Pack 3 (SP3) weeks before it fixed any other version of Windows. The glitch, which sent some PCs into an endl Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Microsoft's exploit predictions are right less than half the time Microsoft today called its first month of predicting whether hackers will create exploit code for its bugs a success -- even though the company got its forecast right less than half the time."I think we did real Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Microsoft explains how it missed critical IE bug Microsoft Corp.'s developers missed a critical bug in Internet Explorer because they weren't properly trained and didn't have the right testing tools, a noted proponent of the company's secure code development process acknowledged last week. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Top 10: Microsoft's bug, Greenspan speaks, Android launches Soon after Microsoft released a patch for a critical bug in its Windows Server software, attack code surfaced, and by Friday afternoon an early sample of the code was out, which led to the week ending on a warning note. Between the beginning and the end of the week, f Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Microsoft: We took out Storm botnet Microsoft took credit for crushing the Storm botnet Tuesday, saying that the malware search-and-destroy tool it distributes to Windows users disinfected so many bots that the hackers threw in the towel."They rea Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Security the focus as Microsoft, Oracle patch bugs It's the mother of all patch days for enterprise IT shops, with both Microsoft and Oracle releasing critical software updates Tuesday.Microsoft kicked things off Tuesday morning with 11 security updates, includi Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Red Hat and Firefox more buggy than Microsoft Secunia has found that the number of security bugs in the open source Red Hat Linux operating system and Firefox browsers far outstripped comparable products from Microsoft last year.In a report released this we Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Microsoft to kick off 2009 with single security fix After being forced to rush out an emergency patch for its Internet Explorer browser last month, Microsoft plans to release just one security update in its first patch release of 2009.The update will be a critica Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Microsoft patches critical bugs in Windows graphics system Microsoft issued a critical patch for two vulnerabilities in the core graphics subsystem of Windows, one of eight fixes released Tuesday as part of its monthly security updates.Microsoft released a total of five Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Top 10: Moto split, Mac hack, Microsoft secrets Conferences this week put the spotlight on security news with a MacBook Air being hacked in two minutes during a competition and research finding that Microsoft patches holes faster than Apple. Otherwise, H-1B visas were back in the news, word seeped out that Microsof Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Microsoft to fix eight bugs in year's final Patch Tuesday Microsoft will deliver eight security updates next week, six of them marked "critical," to plug holes in Windows, Internet Explorer, Office, and other products.Two of the eight updates will patch Windows, anothe Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Microsoft: IE5, IE6 also affected by browser vulnerability An unpatched vulnerability found in Internet Explorer 7 also affects older versions of the browser as well as the latest beta version, Microsoft warned Thursday.The new information widens the pool of users who c Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Microsoft warns of critical bug in SQL Server Microsoft on Monday warned customers that attack code has been released targeting a critical vulnerability in older versions of its widely used SQL Server database software, and urged users to apply a temporary workaround. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Microsoft confirms it's been working on SQL bug since April Microsoft Wednesday confirmed that it has been working on a critical vulnerability in SQL Server for more than eight months, but declined to say whether it has had a patch ready since September, as an Austrian security researcher has alleged. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Microsoft patches security bugs in Exchange, SQL Server, and Windows Microsoft has patched bugs in its Exchange, SQL Server, and Windows software that could give hackers new ways to break into computers.The company released four sets of patches Tuesday, all rated "important." The Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Top 10: iPhone 3G, DNS flaw, Microsoft's cloud Apple stole the IT news show yet again this week with the Friday launch of the iPhone 3G in 22 countries. But there was other news as well, including warnings that a DNS vulnerability really is serious and the ouster by VMware's board of cofounder and CEO Diane Greene Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Microsoft fixes critical Web bugs with security updates Microsoft released two security updates for its Windows operating system Tuesday to patch flaws that could give attackers new ways to install malicious software on a victim's computer.The MS08-069 update fixes c Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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11 Microsoft security updates due next week Next week will be a busy one for system administrators as Microsoft is planning to ship 11 security updates -- four of them rated critical -- for its products.The patches will include fixes for critical security Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Microsoft releases massive set of security updates Microsoft released 11 security updates Tuesday to fix critical flaws in its products, including a publicly known ActiveX bug that affects users of the Visual FoxPro database.In total, 17 individual software fla Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |