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The security firm Sophos released a tool on Monday that it claimed will block any attacks trying to exploit the critical unpatched vulnerability in Windows’ shortcut files.
The tool, dubbed “Sophos Windows Shortcut Exploit Protection Tool,” will protect users until Microsoft releases a permanent patch for the problem, said Chet Wisniewski, a senior security advisor at [...]

The security firm Sophos released a tool on Monday that it claimed will block any attacks trying to exploit the critical unpatched vulnerability in Windows’ shortcut files.
The tool, dubbed “Sophos Windows Shortcut Exploit Protection Tool,” will protect users until Microsoft releases a permanent patch for the problem, said Chet Wisniewski, a senior security advisor at [...]

An anonymous group of security researchers last week published information about an unpatched Windows bug, saying that they were disclosing the vulnerability because of the way Microsoft treated a colleague.
The flaw in Windows Vista and Server 2008 could be used by attackers to gain unauthorized access to a PC or cause it to crash.
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Microsoft has warned users of a vulnerability in the 64-bit versions of Wndows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 that could be used to hijack systems.
The bug is in Windows’ Canonical Display Driver, which blends the operating system’s primary graphics interface, dubbed Graphics Device Interface (GDI), and DirectX to compose the desktop.
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Microsoft has warned users of a vulnerability in the 64-bit versions of Wndows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 that could be used to hijack systems.
The bug is in Windows’ Canonical Display Driver, which blends the operating system’s primary graphics interface, dubbed Graphics Device Interface (GDI), and DirectX to compose the desktop.
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Later today, Microsoft will play it safe by patching a Windows 7 bug that it says can’t be exploited.
Of the 11 security bulletins that will be released in a few hours, “Bulletin 7″ will address one or more vulnerabilities in Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows Server 2003.
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Microsoft said it is testing a patch for a critical vulnerability in Internet Explorer (IE), but stopped short of promising to deliver an emergency fix before the next scheduled Patch Tuesday, which is April 13, more than four weeks away.
“We have seen speculation that Microsoft might release an update for this issue out-of-band,” said Jerry [...]

Microsoft fixed eight flaws in Windows and Office Tuesday, but passed on patching one Windows component because it cannot be automatically updated.
The eight bugs patched today were far from the near-record 26 that Microsoft fixed last month when it delivered 13 security updates. Both of Tuesday’s bulletins were ranked “important,” the second-highest rating in Microsoft’s [...]

Microsoft said it has restarted distribution of a security update that had crippled some Windows PCs last month with reboot problems and Blue Screen of Death error screens.
The update, dubbed MS10-015, originally shipped on Feb. 9, but was pulled from Windows Updates’ automatic update two days later after complaints flooded Microsoft ’s support forum from [...]

Microsoft told Windows XP users today not to press the F1 key when prompted by a Web site, as part of its reaction to an unpatched vulnerability that hackers could exploit to hijack PCs running Internet Explorer (IE).
In a security advisory issued late Monday, Microsoft confirmed the unpatched bug in VBScript that Polish researcher Maurycy [...]