Posts tagged microsoft
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 >
Free IT Apps that will save you time and money, today!
Aug 12th
by Jonathan Dale, Fiberlink And the best part…It’s FREE! Who doesn’t like to hear those words? Well, I guess it really depends on what we are talking about. If it’s your neighbors trash, that’s not really good. If it’s a free hammer when you are about to build a shed in the backyard, that’s pretty More >
E-mail ‘biggest’ security risk, Microsoft says
Nov 17th
The following was written by Chuck Brown of Fiberlink in response to “E-mail ‘biggest’ security risk, Microsoft says” published November 10, 2009, on Goverment Computer News. While Microsoft is to be applauded for starting to look at the security risks that are prevalent within today’s computing society, they actually glossing over the larger problem More >
Dark Clouds
Oct 14th
By guest blogger Clint Adams, Fiberlink. There has been much written already about the issues and events that led to the massive service outage and data loss that occurred at the Danger/Microsoft datacenter that hosted the T-Mobile Sidekick services: Sidekick outage casts cloud over Microsoft (CNet) Microsoft’s Danger Sidekick data loss casts dark on cloud More >
Looking Into Windows 7
Sep 10th
Guest blog from Chuck Brown, Fiberlink. Many of us in the IT world are counting the days until Windows 7 hits the shelves. Whatever it takes to move on from Vista, we’re ready. As one of the lucky few who have had a chance to review the new OS, I’m excited to say that it offers More >