Posted on Jun 24th, 2009
Microsoft released a Security Advisory last month for a vulnerability in DirectX on Windows 2000, XP, and 2003. At the time there were reports of limited targeted attacks with this “0-day”. Symantec has recently received reports indicating that this vulnerability has been added to popular web based exploit kits. Symantec advises, “This will likely lead [...]
Posted on Jun 23rd, 2009
A timely issue with this week’s weather — how hot is your server room? Is it kept cooler than the rest of the building? Does it have a backup AC? Do you have any monitoring to alert you to environment issues before they damage your expensive infrastructure? Most ODMs recommend server rooms be kept below [...]
Posted on Jun 22nd, 2009
iPhone OS 3.0 was released to much fanfare last Wednesday. While it’s a great phone and continues to release new features, the corporate IT crowd is still unenthusiastic, particularly in that it continues to lack central management features. Read more at www.infoworld.com. Microsoft announced on Friday that Windows 7 will offer the same XP ‘downgrade’ [...]
Posted on Jun 10th, 2009
Coinciding with Microsoft’s “biggest ever” Patch Tuesday, Adobe has kept their word with their first ever (quarterly) Patch Tuesday. The June updates for Reader and Acrobat cover a mix of vulnerabilities detected by the company’s own code hardening efforts and those found by outsiders. The updates provide protection against 13 vulnerabilities in earlier versions. All [...]
Posted on Jun 9th, 2009
Symantec, which focuses on Internet security and storage, issued a report last week that said a stunning 90.4 percent of e-mail on corporate networks in May was unsolicited. That’s a 5.1 percent jump over April. Other interesting observations: Spammers are breaking the CAPTCHAs for major free webmail hosting providers (Yahoo, MSN, Gmail) making the messages [...]
Posted on Jun 2nd, 2009
Modern firewalls do provide additional security over traditional rule-based firewalls. To continue the doorman analogy: firewall rules are akin to a doorman with a list of invitees; stateful packet inspection is a doorman who keeps track of who comes and goes, allowing only those already inside to return; modern firewalls offer deep packet inspection.. meaning [...]