Tag Archives: Microsoft
Microsoft, Apple, Facebook victims of Java exploits
We wrote several times that when Oracle fixed quickly the security holes in Java, it did not have enough time to address the source of the problem. This can be now seen more clear after big names in the IT … Continue reading
Microsoft fixes the IE zero-day exploit
We have published information about the IE zero-day exploit which affected IE version 6 to 9 on all operating systems on which it is available. Not surprisingly, Microsoft announced today that they have a fix for this problem even before the cumulative patch on … Continue reading
Microsoft patch day brings many security fixes
Microsoft did a good job in August by releasing to customers no less than 9 security bulletins which fix 5 critical security vulnerabilities and 4 important ones. Pretty much everything is affected : – the Windows operating system (XP 32bit … Continue reading
Microsoft revokes certificates used to sign the Flame trojan
Microsoft released Security Advisory 2718704 which revokes some certificated which apparently were used to sign the trojan Flame. In a blog post, Microsoft explains how they discovered that some components of the malware have been signed by certificates that allow software to appear as … Continue reading
Microsoft to automatically upgrade IE, but there is a catch
Microsoft announced that they will start in January to automatically upgrade IE on all supported operating systems. The title of the post in the Microsoft’s Windows Team Blog is quite clear, IE to Start Automatic Upgrades across Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7, … Continue reading
Microsoft publishes a workaround for Duqu Malware
We have written already about Stuxnet v2 or TR/Duqu and we mentioned that Avira detects it TR/Spy.Duqu.A and TR/Duqu.A.1. This malware uses a vulnerability in a Microsoft Windows component, the TrueType font parsing engine. The vulnerability is caused when the Windows kernel-mode driver win32k.sys fails … Continue reading
Internet Explorer issues after updates
Microsoft announced in the Security Bulletin MS11-081 published in October that all versions of Internet Explorer (from 6 to 9) on all Windows operating system versions are affected by some vulnerabilities, many of them critical. In the same time, updates were delivered … Continue reading
Microsoft’s official Youtube channel hacked (updated)
It appears that someone has hacked into Microsoft’s account on Youtube and removed all videos. As can be seen in the picture, there are currently no videos at all anymore (see the red arrow in the screenshot) and the comment … Continue reading
Microsoft security updates available
Microsoft published eight updates for Microsoft Forefront United Access Gateway, Microsoft Host Integration Server, Internet Explorer, Microsoft .NET Framework, Microsoft Silverlight, and Microsoft Windows. Six of these updates are important and two are critical because they allow a Remote Code Execution. … Continue reading
More updates because of invalidated fraudulent certificates
The Mozilla Foundation issued the Security Advisory 2011-34 in order to completely remove the DigiNotar root certificate from its trusted vendors repository. We are missing any news from Apple which seems to completely ignore the entire issue. We haven’t see … Continue reading