Spammers Release Hoax Microsoft Security Bulletin
News Emails with the subject line "Microsoft Security Bulletin MS07-0065" were sent by spammers on Wednesday morning to thousands of companies in the US and the UK. Security vendor Sophos has warned of the presence of spoofed Microsoft security bulletins.
[June 27, 2007, 15:47]
Lowdown On Latest MS Security Bulletin
News Security Bulletin details This bulletin addresses two new vulnerabilities. You need to check out the technical details found in each Microsoft Security Bulletin to determine the exact risk level and applicability for each of these vulnerabilities.
[August 6, 2002, 13:50]
Microsoft Releases November Security Bulletin
News Microsoft Security Bulletin MS05-053, Microsoft's security department kept to its November schedule and released one security bulletin for the regularly scheduled 8 November deadline. However, the bulletin addresses several vulnerabilities, two of...
[November 16, 2005, 16:00]
Microsoft Releases November Security Bulletin
Talkback Mostly have yourself to blame? That's a double edged sword. Do you mean, 1, by buying products known to be insecure year round you should have known better, or, 2, by not staying up-to-date with the latest patches you're simply asking for it?
[November 17, 2005, 20:24]
Microsoft Product Activation For Windows XP: Technical Market Bulletin
White Papers Software piracy is a worldwide problem which negatively impacts software developers, resellers, support professionals, and most importantly, consumers. One form of piracy, estimated to be as high as 50%, is known as casual copying.
[September 8, 2005, 0:00]
Microsoft Security Bulletin MS01-059: Unchecked Buffer In Universal Plug And Play Can Lead To System Compromise
White Papers Microsoft strongly urges all Windows XP customers to apply the patch immediately. Customers using Windows 98, 98SE or ME should apply the patch if the Universal Plug and Play service is installed and running.
[April 28, 2004, 0:00]
Microsoft Security Bulletin MS02-016: Opening Group Policy Files For Exclusive Read Blocks Policy Application
White Papers An attacker would likely exploit the vulnerability by first logging onto the domain normally, and then opening the Group Policy files with exclusive read access. She could then log onto the network a second time.
[May 5, 2004, 0:00]
Bulletin: MS-DoJ Ruling Delayed
News Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson's ruling in the MS-DoJ ruling will come at 1:30 PM PT instead of at noon, the court said. No reason for the delay was announced. What do you think? Tell the Mailroom. And read what others have said.
[June 7, 2000, 16:37]
Microsoft Security Bulletin MS02-015: Cumulative Patch For Internet Explorer
White Papers Two vulnerabilities, the most serious of which would allow script to run in the Local Computer Zone. This is a cumulative patch that includes the functionality of all previously released patches for IE 5.01, 5.5 and IE 6.
[April 28, 2004, 0:00]
Microsoft Security Bulletin MS02-017: Unchecked Buffer In The Multiple UNC Provider Could Enable Code Execution
White Papers The Multiple UNC Provider (MUP) is a Windows service that assists in locating network resources that are identified via UNC (uniform naming convention). The MUP receives commands containing UNC names from applications and sends the name to each...
[May 4, 2004, 0:00]
Microsoft Windows XP: Performance Market Bulletin
White Papers Microsoft Windows XP offers you many new features. And its excellent overall performance - which includes dramatically faster boot and resume times, along with highly responsive applications - creates the conditions for a very satisfying user...
[September 8, 2005, 0:00]
Kaspersky, Grisoft, F-Secure Fail VB100 Security Test
Blog Three big names have failed to receive certification in the latest Virus Bulletin anti-malware test, the VB100. Kaspersky, Grisoft, and F-Secure all had products which failed to detect 100 percent of the in-the-wild malware signatures in Virus...
[June 7, 2007, 17:10]
F-Secure Warns Of Flaw In Its Own Software
News According to an F-Secure security bulletin, several of its products have a buffer-overflow vulnerability in processing LHA archives. The security vendor has suggested a range of fixes in the bulletin.
[May 31, 2007, 12:30]
All Windows Systems Vulnerable To Jscript Flaw
News Microsoft Security Bulletin MS03-008 reports that a heap overflow flaw in the Windows Script Engine for Jscript (specifically, Jscript.dll) can allow an attacker to run arbitrary code on a vulnerable system if the user visits a Web page containing...
[March 31, 2003, 13:40]
New Cumulative Microsoft Patch Fixes Two Critical Threats
News At the end of March, Microsoft released Security Bulletin MS02-015. The bulletin refers to this vulnerability as Local Executable Invocation via ObjectTag, but it's the same as the CodeBase Localpath vulnerability (CAN-2002-0077).
[April 16, 2002, 17:03]
Anti-Santy Worm Spreads
News An anti-Santy worm that uses search engines to spread among online bulletin boards has been spotted, F-Secure confirmed on Friday. The anti-Santy worm searches Google for sites that use phpBB bulletin board software, infects the sites and attempts...
[December 31, 2004, 12:00]
Spammers Target Tech-savvy Web Users
News People who discuss technology on bulletin boards and leave their contact details there are being increasingly singled out by those who send spam, according to security vendor MessageLabs. It warned that spammers often use threads and conversations...
[October 4, 2006, 17:35]
Private Bank Email Goes Awry
News What do a tiny bulletin board service in Virginia and one of Spain's largest banks have to do with each other? According to Caldwell, there have also been brief negotiations about the bank acquiring the bulletin board's domain name.
[July 6, 2000, 12:33]
Demon Users Banned From Usenet
News Some subscribers to Internet service provider Demon are being summarily banned from posting to online bulletin boards, ZDNet News has learned. According to one of the ISP's subscribers, Demon is responding by blocking access to newsgroups in Usenet...
[April 17, 2000, 14:34]
A Year Ago: Microsoft Addresses Another IE Hole
News Microsoft has issued a security bulletin concerning a potentially dangerous new variation of the Cuartango Hole in Internet Explorer 4.01 and Windows 98 that BugNet reported last month. Microsoft highly recommends that all affected customers...
[November 23, 1999, 6:07]

