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Vulnerability in Windows Media Player Could Allow Remote Code Execution
Bulletin Severity Rating:Critical – This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in Windows Media Player. The vulnerability could allow remote code execution if a specially crafted ASF file is played using Windows Media Player 6.4. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain the same user rights as the local user. Users whose [...]
Nice Tip About Using ADF Control Wildcard Control Flow Rules
Eric Schott blogs a nice tip about using ADF Controller wildcard control flow rules to pretty up a task flow with a complicated “railroad diagram” of lines that let the user go from “anywhere” to “anywhere” in a set of five different pages. More: continued here
Vulnerabilities in SMBv2 Could Allow Remote Code Execution
Bulletin Severity Rating:Critical – This security update resolves one publicly disclosed and two privately reported vulnerabilities in Server Message Block Version 2 (SMBv2). The most severe of the vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution if an attacker sent a specially crafted SMB packet to a computer running the Server service. Firewall best practices and standard [...]
Vulnerabilities in GDI+ Could Allow Remote Code Execution
Bulletin Severity Rating:Critical – This security update resolves several privately reported vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows GDI+. These vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution if a user viewed a specially crafted image file using affected software or browsed a Web site that contains specially crafted content. Users whose accounts are configured to have fewer user rights [...]
Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Active Template Library (ATL) ActiveX Controls for Microsoft Office Could Allow Remote Code Execution
Bulletin Severity Rating:Critical – This security update resolves several privately reported vulnerabilities in ActiveX Controls for Microsoft that were compiled with a vulnerable version of Microsoft Active Template Library (ATL). The vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution if a user loaded a specially crafted component or control. Users whose accounts are configured to have fewer [...]
Vulnerability in Wireless LAN AutoConfig Service Could Allow Remote Code Execution
Bulletin Severity Rating:Critical – This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in Wireless LAN AutoConfig Service. The vulnerability could allow remote code execution if a client or server with a wireless network interface enabled receives specially crafted wireless frames. Systems without a wireless card enabled are not at risk from this vulnerability. More: continued [...]
Certifying Windows 7 with Oracle E-Business Suite
This is the second of a series of regular updates on our Windows 7 certification projects for the E-Business Suite. Microsoft Windows 7 was officially released today. Here’s a recap of our plans for certifying the Oracle E-Business Suite with Microsoft’s latest operating system. As always, the answers to these questions may change as we [...]
Vulnerabilities in the Microsoft .NET Common Language Runtime Could Allow Remote Code Execution
Bulletin Severity Rating:Critical – This security update resolves three privately reported vulnerabilities in Microsoft .NET Framework and Microsoft Silverlight. The vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution on a client system if a user views a specially crafted Web page using a Web browser that can run XAML Browser Applications (XBAPs) or Silverlight applications, or if [...]
Cisco IOS XR Software Border Gateway Protocol Vulnerability
Cisco IOS XR Software Border Gateway Protocol Vulnerability More: continued here
Facebook/Twitter Banned at Your Company…This May Impact Your Ability to Hire Great People
I read an article titled “54% of Companies Ban Facebook, Twitter at Work” the other week and was quite surprised to find the number was that high. Whenever the question comes up of about using social networking tools at work – the common debate tends to be focused around productivity. That is many people from [...]
OpenWorld 2009: Storm, Earthquake, and BPM
Three most memorable things about OOW 2009 (at least for some of us): Strong storms, highly unusual for October, that got many of us completely drenched Earthquake, which though not very severe was eerie coming 4 days before the 20th anniversary of the Loma Prieta quake BPM !! BPM was featured very prominently in both [...]
Oracle VM 2.2 and the power of ocfs2
Well, at Oracle World we announced Oracle VM 2.2 and we also announced the Oracle VM Storage Connect program along with showing an implementation demo at the booth. Now that Oracle World 2009 is over, I finally found some time to play with this myself. I just wanted to point out a few cools things [...]
How to Get the Powerpoint Slide Sorter to Zoom Past 100%
When working in slide presentations, I take a very iterative aproach to first slapping down (sometimes hundreds of) slides with just titles and a couple of notes on it in a kind of stream-of-consciousness style of working. Then, as I begin to iterate I am frequently using the slide sorter view to reorganize and regroup [...]