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If you can’t avoid Word's 'Enable Editing,' patch Windows right now

Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2017 06:55:00 -0700

In the normal course of events, it takes a week (or two or three) for the bugs in each month’s Windows and Office security patches to shake out. This month’s patches are no exception. There are lots of reports of problems with IE and Edge, for example, and many more are piling up.

In the normal course of events, the fresh-off-the-press security patches present more of a threat to most people in the short term than do the problems the patches are supposed to fix. You have to patch sooner or later, but by waiting for the screams of pain to die down, you can save yourself some major headaches.

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Kids! Do NOT try this at work!

Credit to Author: Sharky| Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2017 03:00:00 -0700

This IT consultant pilot fish works at a real estate company once a week, performing SAN management and doing routine updates and security patching on the Windows PCs.

“I was using my Linux-based laptop to peruse the quarantine area of the antivirus application, checking out the many X-rated and infected email attachments that had been caught and sent to the folder,” says fish.

“Several employees were standing around watching and commenting on the files. One of them decided to go back to his own PC to check out the pictures for himself.

“Shortly after opening several of the quarantined items, he suddenly called out, ‘Hey, why is my computer acting weird?’

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Card skimming alert! Man loses Rs. 87,000 after swiping his debit card at Pune-Mumbai toll plaza

Credit to Author: Rajib Singha| Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2017 10:15:43 +0000

This post is based on a story that featured on mid-day.com. On September 9, 2017, a sales account manager from Pune lost Rs. 87,000/- from his bank account 2 hours after he paid a toll tax at the Khalapur toll plaza. According to the report, he had used his debit…

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CVE-2017-8759 | .NET Framework Remote Code Execution Vulnerability – An analysis by Quick Heal Security Labs

Credit to Author: Pavankumar Chaudhari| Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2017 09:28:34 +0000

The recent zero-day vulnerability in .NET Framework vulnerability CVE-2017-8759 enables attackers to perform a Remote Code Execution on the targeted machine. This vulnerability is found to be exploited in the wild through email spam messages loaded with malicious RTF files as an attachment. Microsoft has released a security update on…

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