MIssouri-based GoldKey Security Corp. has released a smart card minidriver that supports Microsoft Crypto APIs and can be integrated with PKI applications.
Aug 092011
Lending credence to the saying ‘ fools and their money are soon parted’, Chipzilla has coughed up $7.68 billion for ‘security firm’ Mcafee.
Aug 082011
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One of the many reasons why people tout Apple products is because they are apparently “virus proof”. The amount of times I’ve heard general consumers saying that they choose a Mac because some sales person told them that they can’t get viruses is ridiculous. This argument has gone on for many years and as I’ve pointed out before, Apple has security through its obscurity. Because OS X is only in the minority (4 or 5 percent) hackers are less likely to waste their resources trying to hack an OS that’s not used by the vast majority.
However not many people know that Windows is in fact more secure than OS X. Researchers from Black Hat will vouch for this. They say that Apple and OS X are not recommended for corporate use unless it’s hidden behind much larger networks within the corporation. Windows and Windows 7 in particular are much more secure when it comes to the corporate environment.
But in fairness to Apple, they have improved leaps and bounds in their security compared to their older operating systems. Their latest operating system OS X Lion makes up a lot of lost ground and has greatly improved security. Yet they still have further to go, according to Black Hat, OS X is much more vulnerable on the network, nearly every OS X server offers weak or broken authentication mechanisms.
Now it’s all very well saying this, but there is also figures to back this up. Over the past three years, 1,151 common vulnerabilities and major bugs have affected Apple products. The number for Windows is slightly higher at 1,325, but bear in mind that Windows owns nearly 90 percent of the market.
On the mobile side of things Apple is doing much better. It’s iOS operating system is pretty much the top of the pack when it comes to security, with Android not doing so great at all. However Blackberry has the best data protection of the lot.
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Microsoft today said it will ship 13 security updates next week to patch 22 vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer, Windows, Visio and Visual Studio.
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Yet again Microsoft is planning another big patch Tuesday for August. There is 13 security bulletins with patches for 22 potentially dangerous security vulnerabilities. Two of the thirteen bulletins are rated as “critical”. There is nine ranked as “important” and two as “moderate”.
Probably the biggest security vulnerability is with Internet Explorer. The “critical” update for IE fixes flaws which can lead to remote execution risks on all version of Internet Explorer, including IE 9. This months update patches will also fix holes in Windows 7 itself and Windows 2008. It patches up a potential, though difficult to exploit code execution risk. The update also covers security risks in Microsoft Office, .Net and Visual Studio.
All these updates are set to be published on August 9th at approximately 1PM Eastern time.
More in depth information can be found by reading Microsoft’s Advance Notification Bulletin here
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