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This month’s Microsoft patch release is pushed out with lower urgency recommendations overall. While the Sharepoint and server side vulnerabilities are interesting, IT and individuals should attend to the Excel vulnerabilities with urgency. Microsoft is also putting to bed any issues related to Diginotar certificate trust by adding cross signed Diginotar root certificates to the […]

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Last year as we considered possible future threats, one of our predictions for 2011 thoughts turned to the use of stolen digital certificates becoming increasingly more common.  We envisioned malicious websites and applications being signed using stolen digital certificates and validated by products and applications that fail to keep up to date with these events. […]

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Microsoft has just released an update to security advisory 2607712 permanently moving all five of DigiNotar’s root certificates to the “revoked” certificate store. How is this different than the previous update Microsoft released? It provides protection for all supported versions of Windows (XP, 2003, Vista, 2008, 7 and 2008R2). It covers all five root certificates […]

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