The following Microsoft security updates are released on July 9 2013 : Bulletin ID Bulletin Name Maximum Severity Rating Vulnerability Impact Restart Requirement Affected Software* MS13-052 Vulnerabilities in .NET Framework and Silverlight Could Allow Remote Code Execution (2861561) Critical Remote Code Execution May require restart Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, …
The following Microsoft security updates will be released on April 9 2013 : Bulletin ID Maximum Severity Rating Vulnerability Impact Restart Requirement Affected Software* Bulletin 1 Critical Remote Code Execution Requires restart Internet Explorer on Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows 8, Windows Server …
Microsoft recently reported that over 60 million users have moved to Outlook.com email services. This can be primarily attributed to the Scroogled campaign that was launched by Microsoft. Final version of Outlook.com includes the ability to send large files, auto update address books and combine social media accounts and professional accounts like Twitter, LinkedIn and …
Facebook on Friday announced that it’s security was internally breached when employees visited a developer’s site that was infected with malware. No user accounts or information has been compromised and the attack deemed “highly sophisticated” is now being investigated. This breach was due to a totally new and never reported before (zero day) exploit that …
Microsoft recently started the Scroogled campaign which mentions why Outlook is non-invasive compared to Gmail in terms of privacy because Gmail scans the content of every email and then displays targeted ads. While this isn’t exactly new because Gmail is a free service and many free email providers display ads to make up for their …
Microsoft has introduced an online toolkit for testing compatibility of webpages with Internet Explorer. This set of tools is named “modern.IE” Testing if a webpage is correctly rendered in Internet Explorer involves clicking on “Scan a webpage” and entering the URL. The results are then displayed along with possible issues and suggestions on how to …
Here is a quick way to get the physical/geo location of any IP address : Go to iplocation.nmonitoring.com and enter either the domain name or an IP address. The results for that will display the geographical location and can be handy when trying to identify spam IP addresses or any potential malicious activity. Cheers.
Last year, I moved this blog from Blogger to WordPress. Last week, I moved this blog from shared hosting to VPS. It was a fun experience and interesting too. Why I chose VPS (Virtual Private Server) : To have better control and ownership of blog (a VPS server is fully accessible through root/admin compared to a …
Following security updates will be released by Microsoft on 11 December 2012 : Additional details can be obtained from the Microsoft Security Bulletin page here. Happy patching.
Following security updates are released by Microsoft for October 2012 : Additional details can be obtained from the Microsoft Security Bulletin page here.