IT Security

The November Patch Tuesday update from Microsoft follows the largest patch and security update in Microsoft’s history. This month there are six updates to Office, Active Directory and Microsoft’s Office application suite. These six updates have a low impact, bar one patch to Excel which may cause compatibility issues for some applications. The main cause for concern here is that Excel is a primary if not essential element to many environments. For example most banking, trading floor and insurance platforms. Therefore any change must be tested rigorously. Whilst there are few applications in our sample that are affected, the ChangeBASE AOK team recommends that ... Read Full Story

Trojan.Backdoor.Agent is a certain backdoor Trojan which you want to keep as far away from your computer as possiable.Trojan.Backdoor.Agent is actually able to open up a backdoor within your computer system which will allow Trojan.Backdoor.Agent to gain direct access to your machine,without your consent or your permission.There are many dangers and risks involved with regard to Trojan.Backdoor.Agent and one of these risks includes a malicious remote attacker being able to have complete control over your computer and everything that you do on it. Trojan.Backdoor.Agent may go by the following names: Trojan.BackdoorAgent Trojan.Backdoor Agent TrojanBackdoorAgent Trojan.Backdoor.Agent may display some of the following symptoms: Processes may ... Read Full Story

Microsoft has released six security bulletins today as part of their monthly Tuesday patch day which fix a total of 15 different security vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office and Microsoft Windows . The maximum severity rating for the bulletins contain three critical and three important patches for vulnerabilities that can allow remote code execution and denial of service attacks. Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office users are encouraged to update their computer systems as soon as possible to protect the PCs from possible exploits that could attack the systems successfully. The usual options to download the patches are provided including automatic updates, Windows updates, Microsoft update ... Read Full Story

Microsoft has released six security bulletins today as part of their monthly Tuesday patch day which fix a total of 15 different security vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office and Microsoft Windows. The maximum severity rating for the bulletins contain three critical and three important patches for vulnerabilities that can allow remote code execution and denial of service attacks. Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office users are encouraged to update their computer systems as soon as possible to protect the PCs from possible exploits that could attack the systems successfully. The usual options to download the patches are provided including automatic updates, Windows updates, Microsoft update or ... Read Full Story

ActiveX vulnerabilities have posed a security challenge for some time, and they're likely to be a challenge for quite some time to come. Look at examples such as Microsoft's patches this summer, which included a fix for Internet Explorer (MS-09034) and another (MS-09035) for Visual Studio 2005 and 2008. These updates were released to protect users from a security hole in technology employed by developers to create powerful web-based application elements. More specifically, the flaws resided in the Active Template Library (ATL), which is a framework of code that helps to ease the creation of Component Object Models (COM) and ActiveX controls. Microsoft has ... Read Full Story