Coming May 11, Tuesday, Microsoft will be releasing its monthly patch updates, and last Thursday, the company released an advance notification in its Microsoft TechNet site for the updates. Note that these advanced notifications aim to allow Microsoft users to make deployment plans ahead of time. It commonly contains a summary of the security updates…
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Technical Communications
With the 2010 FIFA World Cup less than two months away, cybercriminals (as expected) are banking on this prestigious international football event to trick users. TrendLabsSM spotted the latest threat involving this, and it came in the form of an email message currently being spammed in the wild. The spam carried a .PDF file attachment which…
Read More.PDF files—or their inherent features—have been used by cybercriminals in some of the most noteworthy attacks we have encountered. Modified versions of this file type have been especially notorious these past few months since they are capable of attacking user systems by initially exploiting inherent vulnerabilities found in Adobe Reader and Acrobat. TrendLabsSM has documented…
Read MoreRegular Release for Microsoft This April April 13 is here and for Windows users, this means it is Patch Tuesday. According to the advance notification from Microsoft almost a week ago, the company will be releasing 11 bulletins to address 25 vulnerabilities, 11 of which have been dubbed “critical.” These vulnerabilities were found in Microsoft…
Read MoreResearchers from Microsoft recently unearthed exploits targeting the CVE-2010-0188 vulnerability. On February 16, Adobe released a security advisory describing a vulnerability in Adobe Reader and Acrobat 8.X and 9.X. Once the vulnerability is exploited, attackers gain the capability to perform denial-of-service (DoS) attacks on affected systems. Doing so can cause applications and even systems to…
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