Thursday, September 10th, 2009
VirtualBox is a general-purpose full virtualizer for x86 hardware. Targeted at server, desktop and embedded use, it is now the only professional-quality virtualization solution that is also Open Source Software.
Sun today released VirtualBox 3.0.6, a maintenance release of VirtualBox 3.0 which improves stability and performance. See the ChangeLog for ...
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Tuesday, September 8th, 2009
A vulnerability in Microsoft's implementation of the SMB2 protocol can be exploited via the net to crash or reboot Windows Vista and Windows 7 systems. The root of the problem is an error in how the srv2.sys driver handles client requests when the header of the "Process Id High" field ...
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Monday, September 7th, 2009
A rootkit is a piece of software which, for nefarious purposes, aims to run undetected on your computer. It will hide itself from process listings and will seek to interfere with the ordinary running of your system to fulfil its own purposes.A bootkit is a particular type of rootkit which ...
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Saturday, September 5th, 2009
Microsoft officials are reporting limited attacks targeting a zero-day vulnerability in the FTP service in Internet Information Services.The IIS vulnerability warning follows the release of new exploit code that can be used to create a DoS (denial of service) condition on Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 without requiring Write ...
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Saturday, September 5th, 2009
Microsoft will roll out a total of five critical patches for numerous versions of Windows operating systems in its upcoming September "Patch Tuesday" security update release, according to a Microsoft Advanced Notification bulletin posted Thursday.All five patches plug holes that allow remote code execution, indicating that hackers could remotely exploit ...
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