Microsoft Releasing Seven Patches This Month
Microsoft is releasing 7 patches for Windows this month. Some of the patches
plug remote code execution vulnerabilities. One is a critical patch for
Internet Explorer (IE) that address a vulnerability in versions of IE from
5.01 through 7. This patch applies to Windows 2000 SP4, XP SP2 and SP3, Windows
Server 2003 SP1 and SP2, Vista SP1, and all versions of Windows Server 2008.
Further information on the patches is available at
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Microsoft To Issue 7 Patches This Month.
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Microsoft To Issue 7 Patches This Month
By Jabulani Leffall
June 5, 2008
Redmond | The Independent Voice of the
Microsoft IT Community
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Spam Accounts for Three-quarters of Email
MessageLabs, an online security
company, which provides antispam and antivirus services, reported that
three-quarters of the email messages it scanned during May 2008 were spam, an
increase of 3.3% from the prior month. MessageLabs also reported that one out of
every 170 messages it scanned contained some kind of malicious code with
90% of that malicious code being botware, which can turn a computer into
a "zombie" that can be remotely controlled by a
"
bot herder".
Mark Sunner, MessageLabs MessageLabs' chief security analyst, reported
that spammers are now also using
Google Docs and Microsoft's SkyDrive
free online storage to host the contents of their spam messages. The spammers
put a link into the messages they send pointing to online documents hosted
on those services, which have the advantage of providing large amounts of
bandwidth.
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Report: Cyberspace Becoming More Malicious
By William Jackson
June 4, 2008
Redmond Developer News
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