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Severity Rating: Important Revision Note: V1.0 (September 13, 2011): Bulletin published. Summary: This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in the Windows Internet Name Service (WINS). The vulnerability could allow elevation of privilege if a user...

Severity Rating: Critical Revision Note: V1.0 (June 14, 2011): Bulletin published. Summary: This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in Microsoft .NET Framework and Microsoft Silverlight. The vulnerability could allow remote code execution on a...

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As Steve Ballmer said last year, Windows 8 is a huge risk for Microsoft in a lot of ways -- it will offer a new look, run on different hardware, and break backwards compatibility with millions of existing Windows apps. Source: Yahoo! News

If any of you don't have problems with overclockin you can skip reading this post. I was testing some overclocking on my old computer and after a day or two my graphick, 1 gb of ram and my hard disk failed. That's the reason i posted this post. I strongli recomennd for you that you don't...

Companies that take risks don't just make healthy profits for themselves; they can drive a whole industry forward, inspiring competition and forcing older companies to step out of their comfort zone. Source: Yahoo! News

When Microsoft chief Steve Ballmer called the new Windows his company's riskiest bet, not many knew what he meant. The reveal of Windows 8 was laying those cards out on the table: it's a belief that tablets will not only be popular but the primary way to compute. We're of the mind that, much...

Last fall, Steve Ballmer said that Windows 8 was Microsoft's riskiest product ever. He wasn't kidding. We've only seen a demo -- there's no reliable word on when it will ship, what the tablets that use it will look like, or even how much of the demo was prototype versus actual code in the...

The Mac App Store is the recently launched integrated application store for Mac OS X which brings the experience of the iPhone and iPad App Store to Apple's general purpose operating system. For the user, this promises a one-stop shop for Mac applications and easy installation and updating. But...

Hello everyone, Pete Voss here again, and as I previously mentioned in the Advanced Notification on Thursday, today we are releasing two bulletins to help protect customers. The bulletins address a Critical vulnerability in Microsoft Windows and two Important vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office...

Last summer at the Black Hat security conference, we announced a philosophical shift in how we refer to vulnerability disclosure, called "Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure" (CVD). Our intent was to focus on how coordination and collaboration are required to resolve security issues in a way...

When you launch IE in Windows after an initial install, the first page you see is Microsoft’s MSN portal. One day, Windows users could open that MSN home page and get slammed with malware hiding in the ads. More...

A new exploit for IE9 bypasses all security measures in even the latest fully patched version of Windows 7, according to a French security company Vupen. Link Removed - Invalid URL

Should you stay or should you go? When it comes to Windows 7 SP1, stay. There is little to be gained by installing the service pack now. Eventually yes, but not now. Link Removed

I have been told ot to download movies, but not why. What is the down side of this practice? It seems like I can't watch a movie without downloading.

Hello everyone - It's a new year and the Microsoft Security Response Center is ready to provide the Link Removed - Invalid URL for January's security bulletins. We have two bulletins addressing three vulnerabilities in Windows. The first bulletin is Important and affects Windows Vista. The...

Source: Neowin.net - Exclusive: New Facebook exploit hits the web Update: If your account has been hijacked, take the following steps: 1) Visit the Facebook "Upload via Email" page 2) Click "Send me my upload email" 3) Click the "refresh your upload email" link. This will reset your...

Revision Note: V1.0 (November 9, 2010): Bulletin Summary published.Summary: This bulletin summary lists security bulletins released for November 2010. Link Removed due to 404 Error

Severity Rating: Important - Revision Note: V1.0 (October 12, 2010): Bulletin published.Summary: This security update resolves thirteen privately reported vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office. The vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution if a user opens a specially crafted Excel file or...