Keeping a user’s computer secure in a stationary location isn’t an easy task, but a mobile user’s security needs are a nightmare compared to anything your home machine can muster. Using untrusted wireless connections and the increased possiblity of a…
Security
Reminder: It’s that time of the month! Microsoft has cooked up eight patches, five of which are rated critical. They affect IE (MS09-014), Excel (MS09-009), WordPad and Office Text Converters (MS09-010), ISA Server and Forefront (MS09-016), a whole bunch more……
Read more Patch Tuesday – April 2009
There’s nothing quite like another round of vulnerability scares to take your system security worry levels to the next level. Security researchers have come up with a way to load code into the System Management Mode which, by no simple…
Read more Intel Chip Flaw To Be Exposed, Let The Hand Wringing Begin
Adobe’s Reader PDF software has had quite a serious flaw in it for the past few weeks which, if exploited, can cause quite a bit of mayhem should the nefarious types wish it so. According to company blogger David Lenoe…
Read more Adobe Patches Reader Vulnerability
Wireless security is somewhat important, especially if you want the riff-raff of your network and keeping their prying eyes from the personal information you transmit wirelessly. WPA TKIP has served as a more robust encryption scheme for many home routers…
Read more WPA Wi-Fi Encryption Partially Cracked, WPA 2 Finds New Fans
Microsoft has found a security flaw so critical that they’ve totally ignored the usual patch Tuesday and decided to offer it today…how so very nice of them. It’s the usual remote execution code/take over your PC/fear for your data type…
Read more Microsoft Security Bulletin MS08-067, Yeah It's Critical
Recent work by Elcomsoft seems to indicate that the security research firm has managed to harness the power of the GPU in order to crack WPA and WPA2 keys used to protect wireless networks. The processing performance increase from using…
Read more WPA No Longer Safe?
Microsoft is rolling out 11 software patches this coming Tuesday for a wide variety of their software products. A set of four critical updates focuses on Active Directory software running on Windows 2000 SP 4, Internet Explorer running across…
Read more Patch Tuesday – October 14th 2008
