Microsoft recently created a new blog site designed to provide insight on emerging vulnerabilities. The blog, titled <a href=”http://blogs.technet.com/swi/”>Security Vulnerability Research & Defense</a>, provides detailed information about newly discovered vulnerabilites...
According to a report from Danish security vendor Secunia, as many as one third of the applications in use on corporate networks are vulnerable to critical attacks. According to this SC Magazine article, Secunia sites deficiencies in commonly used vulnerability scanners as the culprit. Their point of...
According to a study compiled by the Washington Post's Brian Krebs , Internet Explorer 6 was vulnerable for 284 out of 365 days in 2006. That amounts to over 77% of the year. What does that mean? It means the for 3/4 of the year there were known vulnerabilities affecting Internet Explorer 6 for which...
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01-07-2007
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Less than a month from its official release to corporate customers, a vulnerability was already discovered that affects Vista. According to Microsoft and others, the vulnerability can only be exploited if an attacker already has access to the system, meaning they would need to be physically sitting in...
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01-03-2007
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A flaw in the way Microsoft Word 2000 documents are processed could allow an attacker to execute malicious code remotely on vulnerable systems according to a Secunia alert. Exploit code has been identified in the wild and no patch is currently available, so Secunia has rated the Advisory as Extremely...
Microsoft continues to make security a priority and a primary development focus, but being a priority focus is not a guarantee of perfection. Windows Vista is still in Beta testing, but it was found that two of the patches released with the August Security Bulletins also affect Vista. Microsoft created...