Microsoft issued an Advance Bulletin today stating it will release six fixes for various flaws next Tuesday as part of its regularly scheduled "Patch Tuesday" update.
Plus: A botnet study; bad password education?
A newly disclosed flaw in Microsoft Word could let malicious hackers take control of victims' computers by sending them e-mail with a Word document attached.
- By The Associated Press
- 12/06/2006
Here’s a script that enumerates all shared folders on all computers in your domain.
Plus: Yahoo! e-mail addresses getting rejected by U.K. site, and yet another Microsoft exploit -- this time for PowerPoint.
GUIs are for whimps; try DSMOD on the command line.
- By Greg Shields
- 12/04/2006
The government warned on Thursday of a possible Internet attack on U.S. stock market and banking Web sites from a radical Muslim group, but officials said the threat was unconfirmed and seemed to pose no immediate danger.
- By The Associated Press
- 12/01/2006
U.S. companies will need to know more about where they store e-mails, instant messages and other electronic documents
- By The Associated Press
- 11/30/2006
The government issued an alert Thursday to U.S. stock market and banking Web sites about a possible Internet attack
- By The Associated Press
- 11/30/2006
U.S. judge tosses most of SCO Group Inc. claims over Linux code
- By The Associated Press
- 11/30/2006
A Romanian national was indicted on charges of hacking into more than 150 U.S. government computers, including NASA and Energy Dept.
- By The Associated Press
- 11/29/2006
Also: Checking your DNS settings; bots and FUD; more.
EU report says that 50-80 percent of all e-mails are junk e-mails, with much of it coming from outside the EU nations.
- By The Associated Press
- 11/27/2006
EU alleges that SWIFT violated data protection laws in transferring data to U.S. to aid in anti-terror investigations.
- By The Associated Press
- 11/23/2006
Guidance Software Inc. said Thursday it's settled Federal Trade Commission charges stemming from a 2005 security failure that allowed hackers to access the credit card information of thousands of customers.
- By The Associated Press
- 11/17/2006
A former Source Media Inc. executive was charged with hacking into the company's computer system three years after he was dismissed, and tipping off employees whose jobs were in jeopardy, prosecutors said Wednesday.
- By The Associated Press
- 11/16/2006
Using the command-line task scheduler to lock up inactive desktops automatically.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 11/15/2006
Microsoft launched the beta test of its new Forefront Client Security product that aims to help protect business desktops, laptops and server operating systems from viruses, spyware and other threats at its IT Forum conference in Barcelona, Spain on Tuesday.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 11/14/2006
As expected, Microsoft today issued six patches for a variety of security issues, including an XML vulnerability considered to be "zero day."
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