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Three Critical Patches Pending For Microsoft
David Utter
Staff Writer
2007-07-06
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The advance notification from Microsoft for its next patch release showed six patches, three of them for Critical issues, are on tap for July.
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Windows 2000 Server SP4, Excel 2000 SP3, and the .NET Framework all need fixes to correct remote code execution vulnerabilities. Microsoft published its advance notification for July to alert administrators to upcoming updates.
Two Important updates also correct remote code execution problems. One will be a fix for Publisher 2007, the other for Windows XP Professional.
Microsoft's new Vista operating system, touted as the most secure Windows OS to date, has a Moderate fix coming on Patch Tuesday, July 10th. The company characterized the flaw in Vista as an information disclosure vulnerability.
Details of the vulnerabilities won't be revealed until the updates have been released, as per custom.
Be Careful When Dating Google Calendar: Brian Krebs at the Washington Post's Security Fix blog dug around Google Calendar, and found quite a few public entries that really should have been private. Here's one example of what Krebs found:
I plugged "password" into a search of Google Calendar's public events, and within the first few pages of results found a username and password for a credit report account at TransUnion. The credentials belonged to Douglas Kerr, a network administrator for a software company in Charlotte, N.C. Kerr said he'd been experimenting with Google Calendar for a few weeks, but had no idea that he'd imported that record into the application.
Krebs also uncovered some other interesting tidbits left in the open: a weekly Apple conference call, a number of poker games, and scheduled routine maintenance visits. He noted how the poker games "might be of interest to local law enforcement, or even local thieves who'd like nothing more than to crash the party and steal the pot."
About the Author:
David Utter is a business and technology writer for SecurityProNews and WebProNews.
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