Saturday, November 7, 2009

Microsoft releases free tool designed to harden software applications against attacks

EMET, short for Enhanced Mitigation Evaluation Toolkit, allows developers and administrators to add specific security protections to applications

Tool

More info here

Thursday, October 15, 2009

Microsoft Patch Tuesday Oct 13, 2009 Priorities

“Experts in the security field said the focus should be on the end-user and IT should first patch holes in Internet Explorer (IE) and in Windows Graphics Device Interface (GDI).

Those two technologies are addressed in MS09-054 (IE) and MS09-062 (GDI)”

I tend to agree here, as the GDI goes across multiple products, and we use IE everyday.

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