Yesterday was Patch Tuesday. Microsoft had 14 bulletins, 5 of which they deemed critical, covering 59 vulnerabilities. Oracle released patches covering 193 vulnerabilities, including 25 Java patches, one of which is already being exploited in the wild. 44 of these vulnerabilities came from third party components. Of the 25 Java vulnerabilities fixed, 23 of […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Reuters is reporting that the Chinese government has removed a number of Western technology vendors products from the approved list. Whether this is due to Western surveillance or just due to their desire to support local companies is not clear – they are not saying. What they are saying is that Chinese companies “offer more […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Network World wrote about a company that experienced an outage with Microsoft Office 365 cloud email. Users could not get to their email from Outlook or on their phones for 24 hours and it affected users in the U.S. and overseas (see article). The company filed a claim with Microsoft for breaching the SLA but […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Unlike the Sony breach in November, the group that took down Sony’s and Microsoft’s game network on Christmas (see article) seems to be very interested in getting attention. Hopefully enough so that the FBI finds them, but that is another story. What is more important is that the people who did this, according to Brian […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The Department of Justice appears to be doing its best to kill off the cloud – at least in the U.S. Microsoft has been fighting, for months, a DoJ search warrant to provide emails and address book information for a customer who’s data is stored in an Irish data center. Microsoft has been fighting this […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Microsoft just published a critical patch for a 19 year old bug that dates back to Windows 95 and Internet Explorer 3.0. First the obvious – since it was still there after 19 years, all the testing that Microsoft and users have done on every version of windows back to and including Windows 95 did […]
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