Archive for April, 2010

A spokesman for Australian Communications Minister Stephen Conroy has said that legislation that would set up a $120 million Internet censorship system requiring ISPs to block pornography (and information about euthanasia) will not be introduced before... »

Hello. Today we released Security Advisory 983438, addressing a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in SharePoint Server 2007 and SharePoint Services 3.0 that could allow Elevation of Privilege (EoP) within the SharePoint site itself. Servers are at reduced risk from Internet Explorer 8 clients, as the Internet Explorer 8 XSS filter helps to mitigate the... »

Our good friends at Sophos anti-virus company have released their tabulations of the geographic distribution of spam relaying computers. It isn’t news that the U.S. has the most (13.1 percent) but it IS big news that China has dropped off the Sophos ... »

All Internet and land line communication at Sunbelt Software went down as of 10:15 a.m. today.Verizon and Time Warner Internet and land line service in most of Clearwater, Fla., has been blacked out and is expected to be restored by mid afternoon today... »

All Internet and land line communication at Sunbelt Software went down as of 10:15 a.m. today.Verizon and Time Warner Internet and land line service in most of Clearwater, Fla., has been blacked out and... »

tweetmeme_url = 'http://blogs.msdn.com/virtual_pc_guy/archive/2010/04/28/hyper-v-best-practice-analyzer-now-available.aspx'; Yesterday we released an update for Windows Server 2008 R2 which provides a “best practice analyzer” for Hyper-V.  You can read about it here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977238 and download it from here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=89d80c15-0082-4fef-a4fc-fefa463bed08.  But what is it?  How do you use it?  And why should you care? The Hyper-V Best Practice Analyzer is a tool... »

When “doc” stands for “don’t open contents”Brian Ross, one of our Sunbelt malware removal specialists found this little gem – a malicious file that arrives as an attachment in spam and takes advantage of the newly-discovered launch vulnerab... »

Fixes WMS on Win2K serverMicrosoft has reissued Security Bulletin MS10-025 – the one it pulled last week.MS10-025 was aimed at fixing a vulnerability in Windows Media Services running on Windows 2000 Server that could allow remote code execution if a... »

The Honeynet Project blog is carrying an article about a new botnet that appears to be a revival of the Storm Worm network that died out in 2007 -- once one of the biggest on the Internet.They said Steven Adair from Shadowserver found that the new bot... »

“Narcissistic Vulnerability Pimps”Is it just my perception or are there a diminishing number of good rants on the Internet?“Admin” on the Verizon Security Blog posted a really great one last week that deserves comment.“Admin” is David Kenne... »