Archive for February, 2011
paypal e-mail phishing effort in progress
Friday, February 25th, 2011As always, the most important rule of thumb is to NOT click on the link provided in an e-mail especially if they are asking for some login credentials. Just access the site directly by typing in the URL in your web browser. Aside – Not sure if the mAssage part is a typo or intended …
New version of Java released on February 15
Wednesday, February 16th, 2011Java version 6.24 was released on February 15. The update includes security fixes and can be downloaded from – http://java.com/en/download/index.jsp
Windows security event log codes
Thursday, February 10th, 2011The following URL is an resource with codes for Windows Security Events. http://www.ultimatewindowssecurity.com/securitylog/encyclopedia/Default.aspx
Unpatched vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office products – Excel and Power point
Wednesday, February 9th, 2011DIR just provided the notification below on several unpatched vulnerabilities in all current versions of Microsoft Excel and in the 2007 Office version of Power Point. Exploitation of the vulnerabilities require someone open a malicious excel file (commonly delivered via e-mail attachment but it also could be stored on a web page). If the user …
New version of flash released on Feb 8 – current version is 10.2.152.26
Wednesday, February 9th, 2011Adobe released a new version of flash on Feb 8 to address vulnerabilities identified in version 10.2.102.64. The updated version can be downloaded from http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/
Adobe releases patches for Reader version 9 and X (version 10) on February 8
Tuesday, February 8th, 2011On Tuesday, February 8, Adobe released security patches for both version 9 and version X (also known as 10) of the PDF Reader application. It can be downloaded from – http://www.adobe.com/products/ Version X includes sand-box features that make it more difficult for malicious PDFs to corrupt or compromise other system files. Links for downloading updated …
Microsoft patches for February – Advance notice – Summary and deployment recommendations
Thursday, February 3rd, 2011Microsoft has announced patches for the month of February. There are twelve bulletins that will be released on February 8 for all current Microsoft Operating Systems, Office applications and Web browsers. Three of the bulletins are classified as critical and nine are classified as important. The breakdown of vulnerability classification by operating system is as …
