Information Protection and Security

Apple has released Safari 4.0.3 on both Mac and Windows to address a series of vulnerabilities in previous versions.
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Adobe has announced a series of measures to improve security throughout the company's products and practices. Growing out of a threat landscape that has brought unwelcome attention to Adobe Reader and Acrobat from malicious actors across the Internet, the company months ago began a 3-pronged approach to improving the safety of their software.
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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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Microsoft has announced that updates will be coming for Windows that will limit the display of the AutoRun task to removable optical media.
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