Author Archives: ray
Microsoft Patch Tuesday for August 2007
Microsoft patch Tuesday for August 2007 brings us 6 critical and 3 important security updates from Microsoft. Microsoft summarizes the patches in their August summary. Every supported desktop version of Windows is affected by one or more patches. Several Microsoft Office versions are also affected along with several versions of Virtual PC and Virtual [...]
Spam News From Around The Web
These are some Spam related articles that caught my attention recently.
Google Mistakes Own Blog For Spam, Deletes It (via Yahoo News) – Google thought one of its own blogs was a spam blog so turned it over to someone else. Oops. Google does usually send a notification but they say the bloggers “overlooked” it.
The Storm [...]
OSX Security Update 2007-007
Apple almost made it through the month of July without an operating system security update which would have been a first for the year. But OS X Security Update 2007-007 was released on the last day of the month.
Thirteen components are updated. Click the thumbnail to see the component list or visit the Apple Support [...]
Wordpress Stats Plugin Vulnerability Plugged
I usually don’t mention Wordpress vulnerabilities here, but since I use Wordpress and the vulnerable plugin I figured I’d mention it (now that I’m patched).
The Wordpress Stats plugin by Automattic (Andy Skelton ) had a critical SQL injection vulnerability that could allow admin credentials to be stolen. The vulnerability was patched in version 1.1.1 and [...]
Updates and Moving On