re: Stepping Up Security

Tequima — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 15:00:47 GMT

There has also been two Critical (2000, XP) / Important (Vista) Windows patches released this week - if you have not got Windows Update running on automatic, then I recommend running it manually ASAP as the holes allow code to be downloaded and run without permission. It is not often that Windows releases something outside the normal Patch Tuesday cycle. (For the MAC users, I know... but that's only because there are less of you Heh Heh. For the technically minded, look up MS08-067: Vulnerability in Server Service Could Allow Remote Code Execution; look for a service running called BaseSvc) ______________________________________________________ "Redmond has acknowledged that criminals have for the past three weeks been using the vulnerability to conduct targeted attacks. The source said that so far, fewer than 100 targeted attacks leveraging this flaw have been spotted by Microsoft's security team, but that Microsoft was rushing out this patch because the number of attacks appears to be increasing of late." (Washington Post) ---------------------------------------- "At the time of this writing, there are 3,695 entries in that file. Every line contains an encrypted string, which could potentially conceal current victims' details, indirectly indicating how many victims have been compromised by this worm so far." Threat Expert Blog