Computerworld posted a story that Microsoft said that a digital certificate stolen from a Dutch company could not be used to force-feed customers malware through its Windows Update service.
Microsoft updated Microsoft Security Advisory (2607712): Fraudulent Digital Certificates Could Allow Spoofing to version 2.0
Threatpost posted a story that the Morto worm that began compromising machines via open RDP services this past weekend is continuing its work, going after workstations and servers and creating large amounts of network traffic from TCP port 3389.
Microsoft updated security bulletin MS11-069 to version 1.1
InformationWeek posted an article what Microsoft's final security review team learned during the three-month code review of Windows Vista
Threadpost reports that the maintainers of the PHP scripting language are warning users about a serious crypto problem in the latest release and advising them not to upgrade to PHP 5.3.7 until the bug is resolved.
Microsoft updated security bulletin MS11-063 to version 1.1
Threatpost reports that there has been a huge spike in spam volume in the last few days, including a massive amount of malicious spam with infected attachments
Analysis: Think Windows is insecure? You're wrong, says security firm Kaspersky.
Microsoft updated the following 3 security bulletins:: MS11-068 - Moderate: Vulnerability in Windows Kernel Could Allow Denial of Service (2556532) - Version:1.1, MS11-059 - Important: Vulnerability in Data Access Components Could Allow Remote Code Execution (2560656) - Version:1.1, and MS11-045 - Important: Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Excel Could Allow Remote Code Execution (2537146) - Version:1.1
Computerworld posted a news story that Microsoft has patched a security vulnerability dubbed "Ping of Death."
Microsoft published the Microsoft Security Bulletin Re-Releases for August 2011
Microsoft published the Microsoft Security Bulletin Summary for August 2011
Microsoft has published the second roundup of updates
Microsoft just released 36 security updates
Computerworld posted a news story that Microsoft this week urged users to keep an oft-criticized Windows security feature turned on, even as it said that more malware is disabling the tool.
Microsoft published the Security Bulletin Advance Notification for August 2011
Computerworld reports that Microsoft today launched a $250,000 contest for researchers who develop defensive security technologies that deal with entire classes of exploits.
PC World posted a news story that security vendor McAfee published a detailed report on Tuesday about a hacking group that penetrated 72 companies and organizations in 14 countries since 2006
Neowin.net posted a news story that a report from Avast Software shows that rootkit infections are highest on Windows XP
