malicious web | DataProtectionCenter.com

Microsoft Patch Tuesday – October 2011

12

Oct

2011

Hello and welcome to this month’s blog on the Microsoft patch release. This is an average month — the vendor is releasing 8 bulletins covering a total of 23 vulnerabilities. Nine of the issues are rated ‘Critical’ and they affect Internet Explorer, .NET, and Silverlight. The remaining issues are rated ‘Important’ and affect Windows, the […]

Category General Written by Symantec Security Response Blog 0 Comments

Facebook Turns to Websense for Malicious URL Detection

03

Oct

2011

Facebook has partnered with security vendor Websense to protect its users from third-party malicious URLs spammed on the social networking website, the companies said on Monday. Facebook has been plagued by malware distribution campaigns, survey scams and other types of threats for years now and despite the company’s best efforts the attacks continue. The site’s […]

Category Security Written by PC World 0 Comments

September Adobe Flash update patches critical vulnerabilities

22

Sep

2011

Adobe has just released an update (APSB11-26) to its ubiquitous Flash software, revving it to version 10.3.183.10 for Windows, Mac, Solaris and Linux, and to version 10.3.186.7 for Android. Today’s release fixes six vulnerabilities in Flash Player, one of which was being used in targeted attacks (CVE-2011-2444). This bug is a cross-site scripting flaw which […]

Category General Written by Naked Security - Sophos 0 Comments

The Latest in IT Security

Posts Tagged ‘malicious web’

Microsoft Patch Tuesday – October 2011

Categories

Featured

Archives

Latest Comments

About Us

Contact Us