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Internet Explorer to upgrade automatically, unless you say no

16

Dec

2011

Microsoft’s Ryan Gavin announced a new strategy to keep the web safe… Keep your Internet Explorer up to date. It is great news for Windows users who don’t appreciate the importance of staying up to date. Microsoft has been struggling with browser stragglers for years. They even ran their own campaign comparing IE 6 to […]

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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 […]

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Microsoft revokes DigiNotar certificates from Windows, Mac users still vulnerable

07

Sep

2011

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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