IT & Technology Update

Archive for March, 2010

This month, Microsoft released two security bulletins for eight security vulnerabilities, but none of all these security vulnerabilities that Microsoft is categorized as a critical vulnerability. Experts at Symantec estimate that Microsoft has lowered the level of security. “Since the launch of Windows 7, Microsoft seems to have lowered the criteria of file-based security vulnerabilities,” said Joshua Talbot, Security Intelligence Manager, and Symantec Security Response. “At the last, a lot of security vulnerabilities patched this march  could be defined as critical, but with protections like ASLR and ADEP, these types of security hole are not a big issue for Windows 7. What I worry about are in many large companies, Windows XP remains still in common use, and security vulnerabilities is becoming more dangerous on the XP system and previous systems. “
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Cisco introduces SA 500 Series Security Appliance, a network device that comes into the category of the Cisco Small Business Pro Series. SA 500 comes with comprehensive security features in an appliance. Cisco’s product sales target for the class of SMEs. For the SME business class, Cisco divides three product categories, namely Small Business Series, Small Business Pro Series, and Cisco Classic Series.

Usually a company should buy some kind of network security products to complement their own. For example, a company must buy a special product to a firewall and an additional product to the Virtual Private Network (VPN). By using the Cisco SA 500, the user directly get the complete security solutions such as firewall, VPN, and intrusion prevention capabilities and security protection websites and e-mail.
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There is no perfect software. It was always shadowing the minds of software developers. One example is not perfect a security hole in software. Software typically has a security hole that can be infiltrated by cyber criminals. Cyber criminals typically exploit these holes for things such as spreading malicious malware, viruses, and phishing.

Microsoft recently issued a patch to patch security holes. They categorize it as critical security vulnerability.

Adobe, a company famous for its Photoshop products, began scheduled to release a security update. Adobe hopes that users patch the holes that exist on the Acrobat Reader, which was first detected on December 14, 2009.

“We see this security vulnerability actively exploited by attackers,” said Greenbaum. “At the end of December of this attack looked sharp increase and then decrease, but we continue to see attacks limited to such exploitation. There is a possibility that a more reliable type of exploitation is being developed.
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