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Microsoft DLL Hijacking Vulnerability
Aug 26th
by David Lingenfelter, Fiberlink Microsoft released this week information about an issue in their OS that has made hundreds of applications that run on Windows vulnerable to attack. Here’s the security advisory from Microsoft: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/2269637.mspx The vulnerability basically allows applications to start DLLs that are on remote network shares. A DLL (Dynamic Link Library) is More >
A PC in everyone’s pocket. Financial Services leads the way, again.
Aug 3rd
by Jim Szafranski, Fiberlink Remember the days of investment bankers and investors carrying around the Blackberry 850 that looked more pager than the start of today’s smart phone craze? Also, wasn’t it just two years ago that Blackberry had a stranglehold on the enterprise smartphone? Well, those days are obviously gone and some new smartphone More >
Patching – A Key Component of Vulnerability Management
Jun 22nd
by Clint Adams, Fiberlink There has been much security industry angst lately over some of the serious vulnerabilities introduced to the threat landscape by our friends at Apple, Adobe and Google. In particular, Adobe Flash and Acrobat have caused great concern and have focused the spotlight on applications as being a source of vulnerabilities. This More >
How MaaS360 Provides Better Patching
Jun 11th
by John Nielsen, Fiberlink In the last two posts we looked at statistics about patch management processes and four patch management capabilities that are missing from most patch management systems. In this post I want to look at how MaaS360 provides four capabilities that overcome these shortcomings. 1. Detailed Patch Reporting The MaaS360 Platform provides More >
Four Patch Management Problems
Jun 8th
by John Nielsen, Fiberlink In our previous post we presented some statistics showing that most organizations are not happy with their current patch management processes and tools. Today I am going to highlight four patch management capabilities that are missing from most patch management systems, that I think are responsible for some of this dissatisfaction. More >