Microsoft said in a post on the Technet Web site that it plans to release seven security bulletins on Tuesday, fixing eight security holes in a variety of products. Among them will be a fix for a new class of software vulnerability – the “Security Feature Bypass,” which could be used by attackers to make other exploits more potent, Microsoft said.
Microsoft plans to issue seven security bulletins in the January Patch Tuesday release next week, fixing six vulnerabilities rated important and one rated critical. The bugs affect a variety of products, including Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7, Server 2003 and 2008 and Microsoft Developer Tools and Software.
Google has released a new version of its Chrome browser, fixing just a small handful of vulnerabilities in the process. All three of the bugs fixed in Chrome were rated high.
A new version of the OpenSSL package has been released, fixing six vulnerabilities, including a plaintext recovery attack on the DTLS implementation. There are two other cryptographic flaws fixed in OpenSSL 1.0.0f, and a few other less-serious problems.
Recent data shows that the share of Web traffic in the U.S. that’s being viewed on the troubled Internet Explorer Version 6 browser has finally dropped beneath 1%, and nobody is happier about it than parent company, Microsoft, which launched a program to eradicate IE6 back in March, 2011.
At any given time, there are probably dozens of somewhat serious SQL injection attacks going on in various portions of the Internet. But many of them never get noticed by most people, either because they’re not widespread enough or they’re not hitting high-profile targets. There’s one that’s been ongoing for several weeks now that has hit a threshold that commands some attention: more than a million infected URLs.
A pair of researchers have identified a cross-site scripting vulnerability in WordPress 3.3, however the bug is only reproducible on installations that were installed using an IP address rather than a domain.
The website for California’s Statewide Law Enforcement Association (CSLEA) union remained offline Tuesday following the announcement of a hack by well-known hacktivist group Anonymous over the holiday weekend.
By Joe BasiricoWhile assessing software systems of all types a few common mistakes regularly come up. These aren’t mistakes that lead directly to vulnerabilities, but mistakes in how some software companies think about security, that can lead to invalid assumptions, and ultimately which can allow real security vulnerabilities to slip through the cracks.
Shari Lawrence Pfleeger wrote the book on cyber security – or should we say “books.” The longtime researcher and expert has authored numerous textbooks on everything from software engineering, to the application of metrics in software development, to computer security. The head of research for the Institute for Information Infrastructure Protection (I3P) at Dartmouth College, Pfleeger says that many of the biggest challenges facing organizations in the realm of cyber security are social, and not technological.
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