Researchers at Black Hat have said that they’ve found Windows 7′s Enterprise security to be better than that of Apple’s OS X operating system. The problems for OS X seem to stem from user privileges.  While Windows 7 isn’t perfect, OS X seems to have more “soft spots” according to a report by Network World.  [...]

Categories: Apple, Microsoft

Microsoft will be releasing two security bulletins on this January’s patch day leaving two security vulnerabilities affecting Internet Explorer and one issue affecting the Windows graphics rendering engine unaddressed. The first vulnerability affects Internet Explorer 6 to Internet Explorer 8 on all versions of the Windows operating system starting with Windows XP and ending at [...]

Categories: Internet Explorer, Security, Windows

Microsoft has announced that it’s to extend it’s Microsoft Active Protections Program (MAPP) to include vulnerability sharing information from Adobe. The programme, launched in October 2008 allows sharing of information about security vulnerabilities with security software vendors.  So far 65 companies have signed up to the scheme.

Categories: Adobe, Microsoft

Keeping software and the operating system up to date is a dead given for expert computer users and part of their computer maintenance schedule. These users know how to check for updates and install them as soon as they are released on their systems to protect the system from exploits. Inexperienced users on the other [...]

Categories: Security, Windows

Microsoft released another batch of patches using their regular schedule. A total of eight security bulletins have been published that contain descriptions of security vulnerabilities of which six have been classified as critical and two as important. The easiest way to install the patches is by downloading and installing the security patches at Windows Update [...]

Categories: Security, Windows

The article “Five common Web application vulnerabilities” lists and explains five common attack forms and presents an example how this vulnerability could have been exploited. The explanation is clearly aimed at people who do not have dealt with such vulnerabilities before, seems to be a great way to start and getting informed.

Categories: Security

Cirt.net provides an easy and fast way to search many sites that post security vulnerabilites. The search engine uses the databases of the following sites: Bugtraq, CVE, ISS, OSVDB, Secunia, Snort, Nessus, Packetstorm, Security Tracker, Bugtraq Mailing List and Full-Disclosure Mailing List. The latest security vulnerabilites are reported to those sites and you are able to check them all with this search engine.

Categories: Security