On deck: Critical Microsoft Office, Excel, Windows patches
Microsoft plans to ship six bulletins with patches for multiple code execution vulnerabilities affecting Office, Excel, Windows and the .NET Framework.
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Ryan Naraine
Ryan Naraine is a journalist and social media enthusiast specializing in Internet and computer security issues.
Dancho Danchev
Dancho Danchev is an independent security consultant and cyber threats analyst, with extensive experience in open source intelligence gathering, malware and cybercrime incident response.
Latest Posts
Let users virtualize Vista because hypervisor rootkits are no threat
Some day, hypervisor malware will be mooted when every mainstream platform runs virtualized by default, with secured, well-tested hypervisors that prevent hyperjacking from ever taking place. Microsoft should help make that day come sooner rather than later.
The dark side of search engines
As a malware researcher, I spend the majority of my days days studying the dark side of the web and one of the most interesting things I get to see are the weird, and sometimes wonderful, search engine queries that result in dangerous Web sites.
As goes Ohio, so goes the country
Guest Editorial: What do 225,000 Ohio taxpayers, 64,000 state employees and 600 lucky holders of winning lottery tickets have in common?
Operation Bot Roast: Too little too late
Guest Editorial: The US FBI has kicked off Operation Bot Roast this summer with the goal of addressing the botnet problem. Hurray for them,it's good that something is being done. However, this is probably not going to stop the botnet problem, and maybe wont even make a dent in the problem.
Breaking open the iPhone
Hardware hackers at iFixit are disassembling the iPhone in real time, providing the first look at the belly of the beast.
Blue Pill hacker challenge update: It's a no-go
Rutkowska says she is "ready to accept" the challenge but wants her two-person team to be paid $384,000 ($200 a day each for two people working full-time for six months), a demand that has dashed all hopes for a hacker face off at Black Hat this year.
TippingPoint heading for IPO door
Less than three years after shelling out $430 million to acquire TippingPoint, 3Com plans to spin out the unit in a planned IPO later this year.
Exploit packs get intelligent -- Attacks launched based on victim's browser
Virus hunters at Symantec have stumbled upon a malicious server using an attack framework that intelligently chooses exploits based on the client's browser.This is the first sign of the type of reconnaissance attacks predicted by by white hat researchers (See: Do you know what's leaking out of your browser?
OpenBSD founder: Intel leaves open-source out in the cold
OpenBSD founder Theo de Raadt wants Intel to come clean on the severity of bugs in the Intel Core 2 processors, warning that some of the bugs "will *ASSUREDLY* be exploitable from userland code."de Raadt's comments follow Intel's release of a BIOS patch to cover potential unpredictable system behavior on Windows machines running Core 2 and Xeon 3000/5000 chips.