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Five Important Bulletins for September Patch Tuesday

14

Sep

2011

Microsoft is keeping it light this September after releasing 13 security bulletins last August. They released five security bulletins for this month, all of which were rated “Important”. These bulletins resolve 15 flaws found in several software. One of the bulletins addresses five vulnerabilities (MS11-072) in Microsoft Excel and affects even the newest and Mac […]

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BIOS threat is showing up again!

09

Sep

2011

There are more and more known viruses that infect the MBR (Master Boot Record). Symantec Security Response has published a blog to demonstrate this trend last month. However, we seldom confront with one that infects the BIOS. One of them is the notorious CIH appeared in 1999, which infected the computer BIOS and thus harmed a […]

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Exploit for June MS Tuesday Vulnerability in the Wild

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Jun

2011

Symantec Security Response has confirmed that the Microsoft Internet Explorer Time Element Uninitialized Memory Remote Code Execution Vulnerability is being exploited in the wild. The vulnerability itself affects IE versions 6, 7, and 8. However, the exploit we have acquired seems to only affect version 8. Microsoft has already released patches as part of the MS […]

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