The latest sneak peek at Windows 8 comes courtesy of a youtube video leaked by Compixels.com. While login screens are generally not that exiting, this gives more evidence that Windows 8 is going to be Microsoft’s tablet platform of choice. The video which has a sleightly NSFW work username and user photo, shows …
Read MoreWe all love patch Tuesday! Once a month Microsoft releases patches that hopefully fix bugs or security vulnerabilities, but also potentially break in-house software.
This Tuesday’s release includes 64 updates for Windows, Office and five other Microsoft products. The biggest patch is for Internet Explorer as per Microsoft:
The most important fixes addressed a vulnerability in …
Read MoreMicrosoft Security Response Center has announced that it will be pushing out three Security Bulleting covering 11 software vulnerabilities for patch Tuesday (November 9, 2010). Microsoft is also hosting a webcast on November 10th to address any questions you may have regarding these patches.
There is only one patch labeled “Critical” for this patch and the other two are labeled “Important”. The critical patch, allows Remote Code Execution or in other words a hacker could use it to seize control of an unpatched machine. The other two patches while not critical also offer a potential hacker the ability to either seize control of the user’s machine or enable access they shouldn’t otherwise have. There are no Operating System patches this round, however all three patches will require the patched machine to be restarted.
Read MoreYou won’t find me agreeing with Steve Jobs very often. This is not to say I disagree with how he runs his business, because I think he is a marketing and product design genius, but I think his approach towards security relies too much on “security through obscurity” and “protecting the user from themselves”. However, his comments on Flash’s security were spot on and the latest security advisory from Adobe, illustrates this.
Read MoreMicrosoft has announced the end of life for Response Point telephone systems. For those who don’t know Response Point was a VOIP phone system developed by Microsoft for the small business market and manufactured by Aastra, Dlink and SysPine. Response Point offered advanced VOIP phone system features like Voice Recognition, Smart Auto Attendant and Click to call from you desktop all in a system that cost around $5,500 for a 20 phone system.
Read MoreMicrosoft has released another patch Tuesday this month and based on it’s out of order status you can be assured that it is important.
Read MoreThe undefeated God, who slew the great Titans of old, is back and he wants your banking information.
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