Mon, 30/03/09 – 20:50 | No Comment

CBS 60 Minutes covers Conficker, malware epidemic | Zero Day | ZDNet.com: http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=3036 Did 60 minutes help or just report the facts very badly? If I didn’t know better I would say that after watching 60 minutes that I am just going to stop using my computer.  Because obviously just using it for day to day stuff is obviously and utterly dangerous.  In that 15 minutes on the one hand the guy from Symantec is saying I’m screwed, on the other hand the guy from Google says he never sees the bad stuff.  Is that because he never uses the google search engine for things like “March Madness”, which at one time offered up bogus antispyware offerings

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Third Party Patch Management
Tuesday, 24 Mar, 2009 – 9:28 | No Comment

Posted by Al Cooper on Mar 24 With all the security updates to programs like Acrobat & Java, I am interested in how the community is handling patch management practically in small to medium sized organizations (50 to 200 computers). Microsoft Update Server works for Windows patches but will not handle third party…

Third Party Patch Management
Tuesday, 24 Mar, 2009 – 9:28 | No Comment

Posted by Al Cooper on Mar 24 With all the security updates to programs like Acrobat & Java, I am interested in how the community is handling patch management practically in small to medium sized organizations (50 to 200 computers). Microsoft Update Server works for Windows patches but will not handle third party…

Third Party Patch Management
Tuesday, 24 Mar, 2009 – 9:28 | No Comment

Posted by Al Cooper on Mar 24 With all the security updates to programs like Acrobat & Java, I am interested in how the community is handling patch management practically in small to medium sized organizations (50 to 200 computers). Microsoft Update Server works for Windows patches but will not handle third party…

Vulnerability Assessment & Patch Management with GFI Languard
Monday, 2 Mar, 2009 – 0:59 | No Comment
Vulnerability Assessment & Patch Management with GFI Languard

Vulnerability Assessment & Patch Management with GFI Languard Vulnerability Assessment & Patch Management with GFI Languard From: codem Views: 1 0 ratings Time: 02:32 More in Education

Should Microsoft decouple IE from Patch Tuesday?
Thursday, 12 Feb, 2009 – 20:51 | No Comment

Should Microsoft decouple IE from Patch Tuesday? | Zero Day | ZDNet.com: http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=2558 This comes up now and then.  Should Microsoft release patches at any time and not wait for Patch Tuesday

Scalable Software - Patch Management Overview
Wednesday, 28 Jan, 2009 – 13:27 | No Comment
Scalable Software - Patch Management Overview

Scalable Software - Patch Management Overview Overview of WinINSTALL’s Patch Management Process From: ScalableSoftware Views: 16 0 ratings Time: 03:55 More in Science & Technology

Auto. updates in WIN XP
Friday, 5 Dec, 2008 – 1:17 | No Comment

if those computers are not used in an internet connected environment you are fine with a service pack less installation (= original win xp) or even windows 98
no need for security measures …

Consiliari.ca
Wednesday, 3 Dec, 2008 – 4:20 | No Comment

… More MS08-067 Exploits Microsoft said that new malware using an ms08-0 …(more)… The beginnings of a collaborative approach to IDS, (Tue, Nov 25th) - Well I …

More here: Consiliari.ca

Re: KB957097 update breaks TS
Friday, 21 Nov, 2008 – 11:53 | No Comment

Rob, I am only replying, as I have a terminal server, but I have also had a harrowing experience with the dreaded KB957097 update. I am running a native …

[security bulletin] HPSBST02386 SSRT080164 rev.1 - Storage Management Appliance (SMA), Microsoft Patch Applicability MS08-067 to MS08-069
Tuesday, 18 Nov, 2008 – 5:41 | No Comment

Posted by security-alert_at_hp.com on Nov 18
SUPPORT COMMUNICATION - SECURITY BULLETIN
Document ID: c01606691
Version: 1
HPSBST02386 SSRT080164 rev.1 - Storage Management Appliance (SMA), Microsoft Patch Applicability MS08-067 to MS08-069
NOTICE: The information in this Security …

[security bulletin] HPSBST02379 SSRT080143 rev.1 - Storage Management Appliance (SMA), Microsoft Patch Applicability MS08-056 to MS08-066
Thursday, 23 Oct, 2008 – 12:55 | No Comment

Posted by security-alert_at_hp.com on Oct 23
SUPPORT COMMUNICATION - SECURITY BULLETIN
Document ID: c01579861
Version: 1
HPSBST02379 SSRT080143 rev.1 - Storage Management Appliance (SMA), Microsoft Patch Applicability MS08-056 to MS08-066
NOTICE: The information in this Security …

Re: Add non-critical update to wsus
Tuesday, 7 Oct, 2008 – 10:04 | No Comment

Download it from the Microsoft Update Catalog and Import it. [link] Use Internet Explorer and download KB951072 from here - [link] WSUS newsgroup: …