Tag: SECUNIA

Microsoft recently delivered a patch for its malware and antivirus tools, including Security Essentials, Windows Defender, MSRT, and Forefront -- its enterprise antivirus solution. The patch addresses a flaw in Microsoft's scanning engine which could allow an attacker who had a valid username and password to gain elevated rights on a system. As is often the case with these flaws, the fact that ...

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The Firefox web browser does a great job of alerting you when there are critical updates available. But how about the dozens or hundreds of other programs you've installed on your computer? Software security firm Secunia's Personal Software Inspector (PSI) is a free application that alerts you when updates are available for your programs. When you install PSI it will scan your computer for ...

According to security firm Secunia, the just-released Internet Explorer 7 contains a "Redirection Information Disclosure" vulnerability, which allows one site to fetch data from another site through the browser, which opens it up to all kinds of cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks. Interestingly, the same vulnerability has been known and unpatched in IE6 since April. It's one thing not to patch an ...