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Microsoft is Building a New Windows Printer System

Windows administrators are painfully aware of a long history of security issues with Microsoft’s Windows Printing System. Microsoft has tried time and again to patch it, but it is, apparently, kind of like putting duct tape on a submarine with a screen door. Print bugs account for almost 10% of all cases reported to Microsoft’s […]

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48% of Code Bases Examined Contained High-Risk Vulnerabilities

Mergers and acquisitions are a time to tread carefully. While all M&A teams review financials, sales projections, key personnel, etc., it is much less likely that the review includes examining the code base being acquired for vulnerabilities. That is probably not a good decision. Synopsys sells a service to review software during mergers and acquisitions […]

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What is the Message of Rackspace’s Decision Not to Patch Exchange?

Well, the first answer is that it is not going to help Rackspace defend itself against the lawsuits that it is facing for the ransomware attack. Rackspace now admits that it decided to hold off installing a patch for a server side request forgery vulnerability in Exchange (CVE-2022-41080) that Microsoft patched the month before the […]

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