 | from Tony Bradley, CISSP-ISSAP
If you live in the United States its time to pay the Tax Man. Today is Tax Day! But, yesterday was important too. Yesterday was Patch Tuesday. Woo hoo! Microsoft released 8 new Security Bulletins for April: 5 Critical, 2 Important, and 1 Moderate. Check out the overview and summary of the Microsoft Security Bulletins below. Also check out the posts from the past week on the re-emergence of the Conficker worm and the threat of rogue antimalware.
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In the Spotlight | Patch Tuesday is Here- 8 Microsoft Security Bulletins
It's that time of the month again. It's the second Tuesday in April...which means its Patch Tuesday...which means that Microsoft has unleashed a new batch of Security Bulletins on the world. Five of the Security Bulletins are rated as Critical, two are Important, and one is rated as Moderate. The five Critical Security Bulletins deal with vulnerabilities affecting products ranging from Excel, to Wordpad, to Internet Explorer. In almost all cases the vulnerabilities that are addressed could allow an attacker...read more
| | Shutting Down the Internet for National Security
This past week there was a story in the Wall Street Journal claiming that attackers had compromised the electrical grid of the United States. The article cited anonymous sources and stated that tools and utilities had been dicovered left behind throughout the networks controlling our electricity and that if left undetected they could be triggered at some point in the future to shut down our electricity if the attacker chose. The implication was that these utilities were left by Chinese or Russian...read more
| Conficker is Back...and It Brought Company
Last week there was a great deal of hype and FUD (fear, uncertainty, and doubt) going around about the Conficker worm. The worm, which has been traversing the Internet for...read more
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