Targeting Spam > Your January 9th 10th Morning Coffee
[Liquidmatrix Security Digest] I apologize for that. That being said, be sure to read up on the patches that were released yesterday from Microsoft.
Some related posts from Technorati and Google.
[Blog.washingtonpost.com] Security Fix Archive by Category: The cyber attack last month against a U.S.-based public utility came wrapped in a Microsoft PowerPoint document featuring holiday illustrations and heartwarming reflections. This PowerPoint file, which resembled an innocuous version that was being forwarded around the Web by many...
[Liquidmatrix.org] Liquidmatrix Security Digest: The ffs_mountfs() function, part of the UFS filesystem handling code (shared between FreeBSD and Mac OS X XNU) is affected by an integer overflow vulnerability, leading to an exploitable denial of service condition and potential arbitrary code execution.
[Rant-central.com] Rant Central - Blog-Referential: With the change of CMS software, Rant Central reopened user registration. But the Staff and Management remind you that any behavior that resembles blogspam is grounds for instant account vaporization.
[Tweakguides.com] TweakGuides.com - Archived News: Microsoft has agreed to loosen Vista's new PatchGuard security feature which would have previously prevented third party security software - such as antivirus packages - from working properly under Vista. I am neither pro- nor anti-Microsoft, but it seems obvious that without any real competitor to Windows, and as witnessed by the licensing issues below for example, MS is constantly skirting close to anti-competitive behavior with the way they are preparing Vista.
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