Microsoft published the Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification for March 2012
Microsoft has released a DVD5 ISO image file with the security updates for Windows released on Windows Update on February 14, 2012.
India's online Microsoft store has been hacked, exposing the names, email addresses and passwords of its users, which were stored as plain text.
Microsoft published the Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification for February 2012
The security vendor took the unusual step of urging users to disable the program after claims that a hacker group was mining stolen source code for vulnerabilities.
A Russian man was added to the list of defendants in a civil complaint filed by Microsoft at the operators of the Kelihos botnet
The targeted attack that exploited a previously unknown vulnerability in Adobe's Reader application last month was extremely focused on defense industrial base firms, and affected just a handful of systems, according to a company spokesman.
Exploit code for a recently patched denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerability that affects Microsoft's ASP.NET Web development platform has been published online, therefore increasing the risk of potential attacks.
Microsoft has released the following updates: Update for Windows Mail Junk E-mail Filter for x64-based Systems [January 2012] (KB905866), Update for Windows Mail Junk E-mail Filter [January 2012] (KB905866), Microsoft Anti-Cross Site Scripting Library V4.2, Security Update for Windows Server 2008 R2 x64 Edition (KB2631813), Update for Windows XP (KB2632503), Security Update for Windows Server 2008 (KB2646524), Security Update for Windows Server 2003 x64 Edition (KB2598479), Security Update for Windows Server 2008 (KB2644615), Security Update for Windows Server 2008 for Itanium-based Systems (KB2631813), Security Update for Windows Vista for x64-based Systems (KB2598479), Security Update for Windows Server 2008 x64 Edition (KB2598479), Security Update for Windows XP (KB2631813), Security Update for Windows Server 2008 for Itanium-based Systems (KB2598479), Security Update for Windows Vista (KB2598479), Security Update for Windows 7 for x64-based Systems (KB2644615), Update for Windows 7 for x64-based Systems (KB2632503), Security Update for Windows Server 2003 (KB2644615), Security Update for Windows 7 (KB2631813), Security Update for Windows Server 2008 x64 Edition (KB2646524), Security Update for Windows Server 2003 x64 Edition (KB2603381), Security Update for Windows Server 2003 (KB2631813), Security Update for Windows Server 2003 x64 Edition (KB2644615), Security Update for Windows XP x64 Edition (KB2598479), Security Update for Windows Vista (KB2631813), Security Update for Windows Embedded Standard 7 (KB2644615), Security Update for Windows Server 2003 for Itanium-based Systems (KB2646524), Update for Windows Vista for x64-based Systems (KB2632503), Security Update for Windows Server 2008 for Itanium-based Systems (KB2644615), Security Update for Windows Server 2003 x64 Edition (KB2631813), Security Update for Windows Server 2008 x64 Edition (KB2644615), Update for Windows XP x64 Edition (KB2632503), Update for Windows Server 2008 x64 Edition (KB2632503), Security Update for Windows Server 2003 (KB2646524), Security Update for Windows XP (KB2646524), Security Update for Windows Vista for x64-based Systems (KB2644615), Security Update for Windows Vista for x64-based Systems (KB2646524), Security Update for Windows Server 2003 for Itanium-based Systems (KB2638806), Security Update for Windows Vista for x64-based Systems (KB2631813), Security Update for Windows Server 2003 for Itanium-based Systems (KB2631813), Update for Windows Server 2008 R2 x64 Edition (KB2636573), and Security Update for Windows XP x64 Edition (KB2631813)
Seculert Cyber Threat Management has done a lot of research on the Ramnit worm and recently spotted it targeting Facebook accounts stealing over 45,000 logins mostly from the UK and France
This week a program was released to allow brute force cracking of vulnerabilities in wifi protected networks
Microsoft published a Security Bulletin Advance Notification for December 2011
H Online posted a story that a vulnerability in the 64-bit version of Windows 7 may permit attackers to run malicious code with kernel privileges
ComputerWorld posted a story that Adobe plans to release a patch for an older version of the Reader PDF viewer to stymie attacks like those aimed at major defense contractors earlier this month.
Microsoft has released the following security updates: Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer 8 for Windows Server 2003 x64 Edition (KB2618444), Security Update for Microsoft Office Publisher 2007 (KB2596705), Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer 8 for Windows XP (KB2618444), Security Update for Windows Vista for x64-based Systems (KB2621146), Security Update for Windows Server 2003 x64 Edition (KB2620712), Security Update for Windows Server 2003 x64 Edition (KB2621146), Security Update for Windows Vista (KB2621146), Security Update for Windows 7 for x64-based Systems (KB2639417), Security Update for Windows 7 (KB2620712), Security Update for Windows Server 2008 for Itanium-based Systems (KB2639417), Security Update for Windows XP x64 Edition (KB2620712), Security Update for Windows Server 2008 x64 Edition (KB2621146), Security Update for Windows XP (KB2633171), Security Update for Windows Server 2008 R2 x64 Edition (KB2621146), Security Update for Windows XP (KB2624667), Security Update for Windows Vista for x64-based Systems (KB2639417), Security Update for Windows Server 2008 R2 x64 Edition (KB2620712), Security Update for Windows Server 2008 R2 for Itanium-based Systems (KB2620712), Security Update for Windows Server 2003 x64 Edition (KB2624667), Security Update for Windows 7 (KB2621146), Security Update for Windows Server 2003 for Itanium-based Systems (KB2639417), Security Update for Windows Embedded Standard 7 for x64-based Systems (KB2620712), and Security Update for Windows Server 2008 R2 for Itanium-based Systems (KB2639417)
Microsoft published the Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification for December 2011
Adobe has released patches for a string of critical vulnerabilities in Flash on all of the major supported platforms
Microsoft has released an updated certificate revocation list for Windows
Microsoft released only four new security bulletins for November's Patch Tuesday, but the main concern is that the zero day flaw exploited by the Duqu worm is not addressed by any of them.
Microsoft has released 43 security updates
