Vulnerabilities and exploits

Yesterday Microsoft published its regular monthly security bulletins. One of them (MS06-066) addresses a vulnerability rated ‘Important’; the others (MS06-067 through MS06-071) fix a series of vulnerabilities rated ‘Critical’.

Microsoft’s advance notification of this month’s patches include one security bulletin for Microsoft XML Core Services, and five security bulletins for Microsoft Windows.

Kaspersky Lab presents the Online Scanner Top Twenty for October 2006

Kaspersky Lab presents the Virus Top Twenty for October 2006

Symposium uses some new terms

Is the number of arrests and convictions falling?

Once again it’s patch Tuesday. Make sure you patch your systems, to maximise their resilience to malicious code.

Microsoft has issued its customary advance notification of its October security patches, due for release on Tuesday, 10th October.

Kaspersky Lab presents the online scanner Top Twenty for September 2006

Kaspersky Lab presents the Virus Top Twenty for September 2006

New trick being used to bypass MSN filters

Microsoft has fixed the .PIF ‘vulnerabilty’ in their MSN network filters as described in the previous blogpost.

This latest half-yearly report covers the most significant changes in malicious code evolution over the last six months and included a number of predictions as to how the situation may develop based on the statistics we have today.

This current paper analyzes the attacks intercepted by the Smallpot network during the first six months of 2006.

Electronic voting may not solve all voter woes