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The new Mac virus is a joke

Nov 24th, 2008
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We, the Mac users always wanted to have a good, strong, handsome Mac virus that can tear up our systems and make Windows users think they have flies instead of viruses onto their PC’s. Unfortunately, Mac OS isn’t a good environment to sustain our fetishes and the big bad Mac viruses need to work harder than that. Now, putting the joke aside, there weren’t any real virus threats within the Mac community, but some sources, claim that the new Mac virus will hack and crack and whatnot.

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Block SQL Injection Attacks: Microsoft Urlscan filter

Nov 5th, 2008
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Microsoft developed this tool specifically to deal with the increased number of SQL Injection attacks towards websites hosted on Windows server platforms. While the 3.0 version of Urlscan managed to deal with the SQL injection attacks, it also allowed attackers to diversify and it become a threat to the administrators, by backfiring.

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MS Word: malicious gateway to your PC

Jul 11th, 2008
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A new bug within Microsoft Office seems to allow attackers to plant Trojan horses within our computers. This new exploit isn’t confirmed at this moment, Symantec, the security company behind this finding, is still in discussions with MIcrosoft to confirm this exploit. Symantec states that some MS Office versions, even if fully patched, are affected.

Microsoft released a Security Advisory, with further details regarding this security flaw. Within this security report, they state:
“Microsoft is investigating new public reports of a possible vulnerability in Microsoft Office Word 2002 Service Pack 3. Our initial investigation indicates that customers who use all other supported versions of Microsoft Office Word, Microsoft Office Word Viewer, Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 File Formats, and Microsoft Office for Mac are not affected.”

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