Microsoft has released the Security Bulletin for May 2009 which contains one Microsoft Office PowerPoint vulnerability which affects various editions of Microsoft Office but also the Microsoft Office PowerPoint Viewer and Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack. Affected are Microsoft Office PowerPoint editions in Microsoft Office 2000, Office XP, Office 2003 and Microsoft Office 2007. The security [...]

Categories: Security, Windows

Now this did not take long. Only one day after releasing a first public beta version of Google Chrome researchers at Kaspersky discovered (Thanks Neil for sending the tip) a security vulnerability that combines a security flaw in Webkit, the browser engine used by Google Chrome, with a Java bug. Apple fixed the vulnerability in [...]

Categories: Browsing, Google Chrome, Security

I picked up an interesting story over at Neowin entitled “Vista’s Security Rendered Completely Useless by New Exploit” which reports on a new technique hat can “bypass all memory protection safeguards that Microsoft built into Windows Vista.” The researchers were able to load whatever content they wanted into any location they wished on a user’s [...]

Categories: Security, Windows