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Microsoft Releases 5 Critical Windows Updates
Microsoft has released 5 security bulletins for Windows and updates to address the 8 vulnerabilities described in them. All 5 bulletins have a maximum severity rating of "critical," but some Windows versions are affected more severely than others. The recently-announced vulnerability in the IIS FTP service is not addressed, nor is this morning's new SMB2 vulnerability.
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More Firefox Updates for More Critical Vulnerabilities
Two days after disclosing two vulnerabilities that had been fixed in Firefox 3.5 (which had been released weeks before), Mozilla has disclosed 4 more vulnerabilities, 2 of them critical, and released new versions of Firefox to address them.
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Microsoft Advises on Serious IIS Vulnerability
Microsoft has issued a security advisory for a vulnerability in the IIS web server that comes with Windows Server versions. The vulnerability is in the WebDAV (Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning) feature which is a set of HTTP extensions to allow clients to manipulate files on web servers. Because of the vulnerability, an unauthenticated user could gain access to files that normally require authentication.
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Conficker Attacks MRI Systems in Hospitals
A San Jose Mercury News news report says that over 300 hospital devices, including MRI systems, were infected with the Conficker worm and attacking other devices on the network.
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