Hi folks!!!

Its patch tuesday again. This time MS has released 1 critical and 2 important patches.

Details:

1. Microsoft Security Bulletin MS09-006 – Critical
Vulnerabilities in Windows Kernel Could Allow Remote Code Execution (958690)

This security update resolves several privately reported vulnerabilities in the Windows kernel. The most serious vulnerability could allow remote code execution if a user viewed a specially crafted EMF or WMF image file from an affected system.

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Ahaa!! Microsoft seems to be really pissed off by the impact of conficker worm that it has announced an award of $250000 for the arrest of its author. Conficker is the real latest worm that has badly hit millions of users using Microsoft Windows. Well good luck for catching the author but here I will mention some tips which can help in conficker arrest.

1. Admin access. Users whose accounts are configured to have fewer user rights on the system could be less impacted than users who operate with administrative user rights. Also a study also found that eliminating Admin rights would have stopped or mitigated: Read more »

Hi all system admins…we again have some work to do : )

Microsoft released 4 patches this Tuesday. Details are as mentioned below.

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Microsoft has released its MS09 series by patching a highly critical SMB vulnerability affecting Win2k, Win2k3, Winxp and even Vista and Win2k8.

Microsoft ratings are as mentioned below:

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After the recent out-of-band release of patch MS08-67 by Microsoft, the software giant has again released it MS08-78 out-of-band patch.

The patch is tagged as critical and affects Internet Explorer from 5.1 to 7 version. There are a few mitigating factors but I strongly feel that atleast desktop users or systems which is used to surf internet should apply the released patch. Work-around either wouldn’t work in few cases or attackers would come up with a way to bypass this work-around. Read more »