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Thursday, February 26, 2009
Adobe FlashPlayer Fix Released
The most recent Adobe Reader vulnerability has been addressed with several patches all rolled into one download. If you use both Firefox and Internet Explorer browsers you must download a fix for each browser. The fix is here: http://www.adobe.com/go/getflashplayer
It's worth noting here that originally Adobe stated that a fix was to be available on March 11th, 2009 but when a third-party released a patch much earlier they were moved to action. heh heh heh.
Edited on: Thursday, October 28, 2010 11:57.37 PM EDT
| Categories: Adobe, Viruses-Trojans-Worms
Friday, February 20, 2009
Adobe Reader Vulnerability
Evil-doers are actively exploiting a security hole in Adobe Reader. Users need only open a rogue .pdf file to have their system taken over.
Since Adobe doesn't plan to patch the problem until March 11th, 2009 users should either disable Javascript within Adobe Reader (Choose "Edit", "Preferences", "Javascript", and uncheck the box beside "Enable Acrobat Javascript") or use an alternative to Adobe Reader called Foxit Reader which is available here: http://www.foxitsoftware.com
Edited on: Thursday, October 28, 2010 11:57.58 PM EDT
| Categories: Adobe, Alternative Apps, Privacy Issues, Security Alerts, Viruses-Trojans-Worms
Thursday, February 12, 2009
Facebook Privacy
Check out the handy list of 10 Privacy Settings Every Facebook User Should Know by Nick O'Neill on February 2nd, 2009 at: http://www.allfacebook.com/2009/02/facebook-privacy/| Categories: Best Practices, Online Apps, Privacy Issues
Patches Make Pefect
On February 10, 2009 Microsoft released four critical patches that could allow evil-doers to take control of an unpatched computer remotely. The updates affect Internet Explorer 7, Windows XP Professional Edition, Windows Vista, Exchange 2000 Server, Exchange Server 2003 and 2007, SQL Server 2000 and 2005 and Office Visio 2002, 2003 and 2007.
The best part of his was the Security Bulletin (MS09-002) that accompanied the patches that stated, "Users whose accounts are configured to have fewer user rights on the system could be less impacted than users who operate with administrative user rights,"
Since probably 90% of folks running any flavour or Windows run as an Administrator most people are at risk here.
If you use Windows try to ensure you do nor run in Adminstrative mode. This is bad. Very bad.
So, ensure your Automatic Updates are turned on and patch early and patch often.
