On The Race Of Worms, Alerts And Patches
White Papers The results of the study provide engineering guidelines for the design of alert propagation and patching systems. This paper studies the efficacy of patching and filtering countermeasures in protecting a network against scanning worms.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Critical Windows Patches Announced
News As part of its monthly patching cycle, Microsoft on Tuesday plans to release one security alert for flaws in the Windows operating system. Last month's "Patch Tuesday" also included a critical alert for Windows flaws.
[September 9, 2005, 8:55]
65 Security Holes Found In Oracle
News Customers need to think about patching desktops for the July CPU, whereas in the majority of CPUs only the database server needs to be patched," Wiles said. The company, which has been criticised for its slowness in patching flaws reported by...
[July 19, 2006, 9:35]
Oracle Moves To Monthly Patches
News Qualys recently released data from its vulnerability assessment service that showed that companies are patching systems faster. Some of the gain may be due to the new patching schedule introduced by Microsoft, a possibility that Eschelbeck is...
[August 20, 2004, 9:10]
Second Zero-day Excel Flaw Emerges
News Microsoft typically does not release fixes outside of its monthly patching cycle for such flaws, these experts said. The latest vulnerability could cause Excel to crash after a malicious file is opened, according to an alert Symantec sent to...
[June 21, 2006, 10:15]
Botnet Worm Exploits Symantec Flaw
News And while patching Microsoft applications has become second nature for many IT departments, the same does not hold true for other software programs, Maiffret said. People should be thinking about non-Microsoft software when it comes to patching...
[December 18, 2006, 9:02]
Critical Office Flaw To Be Patched
News As part of its monthly patching cycle, Microsoft plans to release on Tuesday two security bulletins with fixes for flaws in Office and Windows. The alert for Office is deemed "critical", Microsoft's highest risk rating, the company said in a notice...
[March 10, 2006, 12:45]
October Microsoft Patch Details Revealed
News As part of its monthly patching cycle, Microsoft on Tuesday plans to release eight security alerts for flaws in the Windows operating system. Last month, Microsoft planned one critical alert for Windows, but pulled it at the eleventh hour because...
[October 7, 2005, 9:10]
Microsoft IE 5.0 Bodges Patched
News The two security holes in IE 5.0 are a further annoyance to Microsoft, which is still patching up unforeseen blunders in version 4 of its ubiquitous browser. The second alert features a fix for a problem first highlighted earlier this month that...
[September 30, 1999, 14:20]
Mozilla Squishes Latest Firefox Bugs
News The next version of Firefox, release 1.1 due in August or September, will have a more streamlined patching mechanism that will let people download just the fixes, Hofmann said. An alert mechanism in Firefox is designed to let people know that an...
[July 13, 2005, 9:30]
TippingPoint To Push Into Euro Security Market
News With so many new vulnerabilities being found in software products each week, the firm says it is all but impossible for IT managers to keep patching against them all. Speaking at NetEvents earlier this month, Marc Willebeek-LeMair, TippingPoint's...
[October 23, 2003, 14:05]
Major Windows Exploit 'days Away'
News The vulnerability has been publicly known since late last month, and Microsoft last week offered a fix for the problem, but did not send it out via its automatic patching services. A third alert deals with a bug affecting Word 2000 and Word 2002.
[July 13, 2005, 9:05]
Windows Attack Code Released
News Zotob surfaced only days after Microsoft offered a fix for the "critical" bug as part of its monthly patching cycle. The two flaws are covered by Microsoft alert MS06-066, which deals with issues that could put Windows 2000 and Windows XP systems...
[November 17, 2006, 9:29]
Oracle Promises To Patch Flaws Quickly
News Litchfield said that Oracle may want to take a page from Microsoft's book in terms of improving the company's overall approach to patching holes in its software. Oracle has fixed the issues .and will issue a security alert soon.
[August 4, 2004, 9:05]
Windows Worms Wreak Havoc
News Microsoft offered a fix for the bug as part of its monthly patching cycle last week. Trend Micro has rated the worm attack "yellow," which is in the middle of its alert range. Computers across the United States are being hit, including those at...
[August 17, 2005, 10:15]
Viruses Cause Most Security Breaches
News However Microsoft, through XP Service Pack 2, has made the patching process much easier. Businesses need to educate their staff about malware, so people stay alert for the symptoms of infection like a slow machine," said Potter.
[February 28, 2006, 16:55]
Microsoft Issues Eight Windows Fixes
News Patching zero-days The problem is described in Microsoft alert MS06-070. One alert, MS06-069, calls out flaws in Adobe Systems' Macromedia Flash Player, which shipped with Windows XP. As expected, the company issued six security bulletins as part...
[November 15, 2006, 9:39]
Oracle Adopts Advance Patch-alert Scheme
News Microsoft has a lot of experience with issuing patches and dealing with what enterprises need to try to reduce the pain of patching. Following Microsoft's lead, business software giant Oracle is now giving system administrators a heads-up on its...
[January 12, 2007, 8:30]
