Greetings, fellow IT professionals!
I have found a couple of articles this week that may cause some concern if you are interested in keeping your home/work/office computers and networks secured. It seems that some of the leading security software manufacturers have failed tests by independent companies. Software security suites such as McAfee, Symantec, and Trend Micro were tested against real-world attacks and failed to provide a proper level of security....READ MORE
In a similar article, Microsoft is releasing 11 security updates today for Windows OS, Office suite, and IE. Microsoft isn't the only one getting ready to update. Adobe is releasing a patch to fix vulnerabilities in Flash - one of which fixes a potential click-jacking vulnerability (see previous blog) Get ready to start updating your software, folks!
That's all for this edition
Dr. G.
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Plus there are some researchers claiming that most OSs and appliances are vulnerable to a tcp DoS attack. It looks a lot like tcp windowing vulnerability, but they are remaining hush until after most vendors have addressed:
http://www.darkreading.com/blog.asp?blog_sectionid=403&doc_id=164939&WT.svl=tease2_2
Excellent -
Thanks for the info.
Actually, all operating systems are vulnerable to attack. One of the main reasons Microsoft gets hit so hard is ubiquity.
Dr. G
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