Severity: Medium 10 August, 2011 Summary: This vulnerability affects: All current versions of Microsoft Visio How an attacker exploits it: By enticing one of your users into opening a maliciously crafted Visio document Impact: An attacker can execute code, potentially gaining complete control of your users' computers What to do: Deploy the appropriate Visio patches as soon … [Read more...]
Microsoft Black Tuesday: IE9 and DNS Server Flaws Pose Critical Risk
Are you ready for a long week of patching? Microsoft's August Patch Day is live, with thirteen security bulletins that fix 22 security vulnerabilities in their popular software packages. The flaws affect many Microsoft products, including: Windows and its many components (like DNS server) Internet Explorer Visio the .NET Framework and Visual Studio. Microsoft only rates … [Read more...]
Evil Visio 2003 Documents Could Install Malware
Severity: Medium 12 July, 2011 Summary: This vulnerability affects: Visio 2003, only How an attacker exploits it: By enticing one of your users into opening a maliciously crafted Visio document Impact: An attacker can execute code, potentially gaining complete control of your users' computers What to do: Deploy the Visio 2003 patch as soon as possible, or let Windows … [Read more...]
Microsoft Patch Tuesday: Critical Bluetooth Flaw Allows Wireless Hacks
Microsoft has released this month's patches, and if you have a Windows Vista or 7 computer with bluetooth, you should update now. You'll find the full list of this month's Microsoft patches on their July Patch Day summary page. The summary describes three flaws that affect Windows and its components, and one flaw that affects Visio (included in some Office packages). The … [Read more...]
Microsoft Windows and Visio Patches Coming Next Tuesday
After last month's monsterous Patch Day, I'm happy to report Microsoft plans to give us a break next Tuesday. According to their Advanced Notification alert for July, they will release four security bulletins on Tuesday, July 12. The bulletins will cover 22 vulnerabilities affecting Windows and Office (likely Visio), and Microsoft only rates one of them as Critical. Despite … [Read more...]