Computerworld posted a news story that Microsoft this week urged users to keep an oft-criticized Windows security feature turned on, even as it said that more malware is disabling the tool.
Microsoft published the Security Bulletin Advance Notification for August 2011
Computerworld reports that Microsoft today launched a $250,000 contest for researchers who develop defensive security technologies that deal with entire classes of exploits.
PC World posted a news story that security vendor McAfee published a detailed report on Tuesday about a hacking group that penetrated 72 companies and organizations in 14 countries since 2006
Neowin.net posted a news story that a report from Avast Software shows that rootkit infections are highest on Windows XP
Microsoft has updated the following security bulletins: MS11-027 - Critical: Cumulative Security Update of ActiveX Kill Bits (2508272) - Version:1.1 and MS09-035 - Moderate: Vulnerabilities in Visual Studio Active Template Library Could Allow Remote Code Execution (969706) - Version:3.1
Microsoft updated security bulletin MS11-056 Vulnerabilities in Windows Client/Server Run-time Subsystem Could Allow Elevation of Privilege (2507938)
V3.co.uk reports that NSS Labs test highlights the IE9 browser as the safest by a wide margin
Microsoft has released an ISO image file with the security updates for Windows released on Windows Update on July 12, 2011.
Microsoft just published this month security bulletins
A new version of AVG AntiVirus Free Edition 2011 is available
Microsoft published the Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification for July 2011
Threatpost reports that machines infected with the Rustock-related malware are now less than half the size that it was before the takedown in March.
Microsoft has updated security bulletin MS11-046 - Important: Vulnerability in Ancillary Function Driver Could Allow Elevation of Privilege (2503665) to version 1.1
Microsoft is telling Windows users that they'll have to reinstall the operating system if they get infected with a new rootkit that hides in the machine's boot sector.
Microsoft updated the following security bulletins: MS11-049 - Important: Vulnerability in the Microsoft XML Editor Could Allow Information Disclosure (2543893) - Version:1.3, MS11-043 - Critical: Vulnerability in SMB Client Could Allow Remote Code Execution (2536276) - Version:1.1, and MS11-028 - Critical: Vulnerability in .NET Framework Could Allow Remote Code Execution (2484015) - Version:2.2.
Security experts are warning that a recently patched critical flaw in Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser is already being exploited in the wild
Online attacks are increasingly being carried out by multi-function exploit kits, according to research by Web security firm zSclare.
Adobe has switched on silent updating for its popular Reader PDF viewer, the company announced Tuesday.
Microsoft updated the following two security bulletins: MS11-051 - Important: Vulnerability in Active Directory Certificate Services Web Enrollment Could Allow Elevation of Privilege (2518295) and MS11-049 - Important: Vulnerability in the Microsoft XML Editor Could Allow Information Disclosure (2543893)
