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Security Quest #17: Microsoft Edition

January 9, 2008

Another second Tuesday of the month and another set of Microsoft patches. I realize it’s important to patch vulnerabilities as soon as possible and this monthly release schedule tends to go against that, but I like the consistency and ability to plan.
Anyway, this week brought two patches. The first is MS08-001 titled “Vulnerabilities [...]

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Security Quest #16: WordPress Edition

January 2, 2008

WordPress has released version 2.3.2 which it calls an “urgent security release”. WordPress 2.3.2 contains a total of 7 bug fixes. The security vulnerability would allow someone to see future posts by giving access to draft posts. Sixteen WordPress files were changed in this update.
This version will also suppress some DB error messages [...]

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Security Quest #15: Links & Numbers

December 26, 2007

Not much happening this holiday week so just some spam numbers and links.
Spam Counts
My primary mailbox (which manages multiple addresses) didn’t get any new spam messages and the 30-day count is down to four from last week’s seven.
My more public GMail address received a bunch of spam messages this past week, all of which [...]

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Security Quest #14: Apple Releases Security Patches

December 19, 2007

Apple released Security Update 2007-009 for OS X 10.4.11 Tiger and OS X 10.5.1 Leopard on Monday. The Apple support article lists 41 vulnerabilities that were patched. Patched components include Core Foundation, CUPS, Flash Player Plug-in, Launch Services, perl, python, Quick Look, ruby, Safari, Samba, Shockwave Plug-in, and Spin Tracer. The update requires a [...]

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Security Quest #1a: Introduction and Catching Up

September 11, 2007

I’ve been running another site called the Spam Chronicles which was last updated after Patch Tuesday in August. I’ve accepted that I don’t have time to keep both sites up to date. So, long story short – I’ll stop even thinking about updating the Spam Chronicles and will instead incorporate the new content here when [...]

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Comments and Comment Spam

January 15, 2007

In the recent past a couple comments posted to this site have been incorrectly flagged as spam. This means I actually have to log into the Wordpress admin console to even know they exist and then to release them. I had been considering turning off the spam filter since I hadn’t received any real [...]

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