Severity: High Summary: These vulnerabilities affect: Microsoft Visio Viewer 2010, SharePoint Server 2010, OneNote 2010, and Outlook for Mac How an attacker exploits them: Multiple vectors of attack, including luring your users into opening malicious Office documents, or into visiting malicious URLs Impact: In the worst case, an attacker can execute code, potentially … [Read more...]
Four Updates Repair Office and Server Software Vulnerabilities
Severity: High Summary: These vulnerabilities affect: Microsoft Office related products, including Word, Works, Sharepoint, InfoPack, Communicator, Lync, Groove, and more How an attacker exploits them: Multiple vectors of attack, including enticing users to click specially crafted links, or to open specially crafted documents Impact: In the worst case, an attacker can gain … [Read more...]
Microsoft Black Tuesday: Office, Windows, and SQL Server Updates
Like clockwork, Microsoft's Patch Tuesday has gone live. This month Microsoft seems to be focusing on Office and their Server Software, with the Windows updates posing only a moderate risk. As promised, Microsoft released seven bulletins fixing vulnerabilities in several of their products. The affected software includes: Word and the Word Viewer Works 9 SQL … [Read more...]
One Critical and Two Important Microsoft Office Updates
Severity: High Summary: These vulnerabilities affect: Microsoft Office, Visio, SQL Server, Commerce Server, Host Integration Server 2004, Visual FoxPro, and Visual Basic 6.0 Runtime How an attacker exploits them: Multiple vectors of attack, including luring your users into opening malicious Office documents, or into visiting web sites with malicious content Impact: In the … [Read more...]
Microsoft Black Tuesday: Patch Critical IE, RDP, and RAP Vulnerabilities
It's that time of the month again... By which I mean, time for Microsoft administrators to download, test, and deploy a bunch of Microsoft security patches. This morning, Microsoft posted their security bulletins for August. You can find a condensed version of their bulletins in the August bulletin summary. By the numbers, today's Patch Day looks similar to the last month, … [Read more...]