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One of the things I wrote up in the SMBKitchen patching tips is the reason KB2807986 is unchecked...Microsoft is throttling the update for some unknown reason... Known issues with this security update In certain automated update deployment scenarios ...
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DDoS Attack on Bank Hid $900,000 Cyberheist — Krebs on Security: http://krebsonsecurity.com/2013/02/ddos-attack-on-bank-hid-900000-cyberheist/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+KrebsOnSecurity+%28Krebs+on+Security...
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So Nick built a survey that I'd like to see more than just 6 responses to... Most of the users we support are local admins on their PCs and I know this isn't the greatest, but it's what our users want. I've created a quick 1 question survey...
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Microsoft doesn't rerelease updates often, this is one of those times Today Microsoft rereleased update KB2753842 to resolve an issue with OpenType fonts not properly rendering after the original update was installed. All customers to install the...
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http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/smallbusinessserver/thread/76cfdd73-dace-4984-8896-fdaed0dcf818/ Another user, c_h_u_c_k_o , has replied to a thread you have subscribed to in the Small Business Server Forum. Thread Title Do not install...
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The wordpress side of the blog is being rebuilt - again - due to having found a lovely file that allows for GUI access to the server. wp-xml.php http://blog.hacktalk.net/wso-2-5-shell-released/ Now digging into the root cause and testing/code auditing...
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* New Update Alert * The following 3421 new updates have been synchronized to SERVER since Sunday, November 04, 2012 6:00 AM (GMT). If you just got something like that on your WSUS, it's normal and to be expected: From http://marc.info/?l=patchmanagement&m...
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Read this first: http://blogs.technet.com/b/srd/archive/2012/10/09/security-advisory-2749655-and-timestamping.aspx One of the date/time stamped screwed up bulletins is the Exchange one. Microsoft Security Bulletin MS12-058 - Critical : Vulnerabilities...
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So if you patched for Adobe... guess what we're doing it again. http://blogs.technet.com/b/msrc/archive/2012/10/08/security-advisory-2755801-revised-to-address-adobe-flash-player-issues.aspx Kudos to Microsoft for getting it out much faster, but if...
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If you want another way to deploy EMET sign up for this "mid market" techtarget journal and see how they do it: Buffer overflow prevention: Add apps to Microsoft EMET with command line configuration: http://searchmidmarketsecurity.techtarget...
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So we've installed EMET on one computer. We then take the EMET files from the following subdirectory And we place them in the following directory up on our server The EMET.admx file goes in c:\Windows\PolicyDefinitions folder The EMET.adml goes in...
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First off, I think we're acting like Chicken Littles a bit. Once we patch for the latest zero day, there's nothing preventing another one popping up the next day. On any browser. On any platform. So I think we need to step back and bit and think...
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My local news tonight said there's an vulnerability with IE. ... so far so good. They said the German government said to stop using IE (they did, but they've done this before and quite frankly have always been a bit anti Microsoft) And then they...
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So if you are finally getting around to migrating and you are losing ISA... well I have even more bad news for you. http://blogs.technet.com/b/server-cloud/archive/2012/09/12/important-changes-to-forefront-product-roadmaps.aspx TMG is now dead as well...
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Updated services agreement allows Microsoft to integrate content across cloud properties | The Verge: http://www.theverge.com/2012/9/2/3285455/microsoft-updates-services-agreement-privacy-class-action-waiver The EXACT same wording, the exact same look...
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Tip from Matt Carlson on the sbs2k list -- installing update rollups from Exchange are slow going...mainly because there's a .net process doing regeneration stuff...and it's slowwwwww. If you go into IE Options: Advanced: Check for publisher's...
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Released: Update Rollup 8 for Exchange 2007 Service Pack 3 - Exchange Team Blog - Site Home - TechNet Blogs: http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2012/08/14/released-update-rollup-8-for-exchange-2007-service-pack-3.aspx ..and rollup 7 never got...
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I'm reading the SRD blog tonight seeing what updates to prioritize http://blogs.technet.com/b/srd/archive/2012/08/14/assessing-risk-for-the-august-2012-security-updates.aspx Are you?
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Hot and humid tonight. So cleaned up Dad's computer yesterday by rolling back to a backup. Malwarebytes was working, but after seeing all of the ACL changes this nasty did, I cut my losses and rolled back before the incident. One thing I'll be...
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Working on my Dad's PC as something he clicked on gave him a rogue SmartHDD alert /rogue antivirus. One that looks to be specifically going after Microsoft Security Essentials as it hid it in the system tray. Wish me luck.
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