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Vulnerabilities vs Garden Weeds - This week has been full of vulnerabilities (much like the weeds in my garden). I guess it is time to get out the weed kill... (10/09/2010)

New Quicktime, iTunes, Chrome, Cisco BGP update and more... - It's been an interesting week all round with numerous vulnerabilities announced and updates released. Of interest this week were updates from Apple, Google, phpMyAdmin and Cisco. (03/09/2010)

They just keep coming... - It's been quite a busy week for vulnerabilities and updates this week, with numerous vendors going public with their vulnerabilities. (27/08/2010)

Nasty PDFs and Backups go *splat*... - Well as the end of the week draws close, it has been fairly slow as far as vulnerabilities are concerned. (20/08/2010)

Microsoft, Apple, Ad Servers and more! - This week has again been quite busy patch-wise, keeping system admins on their toes getting their products updated. (13/08/2010)

Microsoft August 2010 bulletins - A compilation of Microsoft bulletins redistributed by AusCERT on August 11 (12/08/2010)

Vulnerabilities... one of the universal constants - It's been another busy week for both vendors and vulnerabilities. Administrators everywhere have been busy applying updates for software and hardware from Microsoft, Cisco, Hewlett-Packard and many more. (06/08/2010)

Browser vulnerabilities abound... - It's been a relatively busy week for vulnerabilities, and of course it's not unusual for vulnerabilities to be found in web browsers. (30/07/2010)

NoScript 2.0 is out - NoScript 2.0 is now available (29/07/2010)

Malware variants are exploiting the Windows Shell vulnerability - F-Secure has reported exploitation of the Microsoft Windows Shell vulnerability by other malware variants. (28/07/2010)

Hard-hitting vuls... - (23/07/2010)

Safari Autofill vulnerability - There's an information disclosure vulnerability in Apple Safari. (23/07/2010)

Malware targeting Siemens SCADA - A zero day vulnerability in Microsoft Windows Shell is being actively exploited by malware to target Siemens SCADA products. (20/07/2010)

Talking about the weather - Along with the end of another week comes the warming glow of the office camp fire. Those nice soft crackling noises, nice warm heat, and that wonderful smell of burning electronics. (16/07/2010)

Time to recover before the next wave. - A quiet week passes, but busy times ahead. (09/07/2010)

Browsing a little safer? - Another reasonably quiet week, with the most noteworthy of issues for most people unsurprisingly involving browsers. (02/07/2010)

All quiet on the western front... well, ok... not really - While it's been a busy week for politics with the announcement of Australia's first female Prime Minister, it's been reasonably quiet week on the vulnerability front. (25/06/2010)

Australian House of Representatives cybercrime report released - (22/06/2010)

The steady flow of security patches - Almost sounds like rain (18/06/2010)

Stop. Hammer Time - Everything looks like a nail (11/06/2010)

News travels fast and AusCERT humbled .... - (11/06/2010)

Microsoft patch week for June 2010 - Roundup of security bulletins released today (09/06/2010)

New malware on the loose... - with convincing hooks to boot. (04/06/2010)

Post-conference courtesies - Thanks for an excellent conference! (28/05/2010)

Check Yo'self - Microsoft's May patch cycle completed and the release of a plugin checker tool by Mozilla. (14/05/2010)

Learn by breaking - A quiet week and a purposefully broken web application to play with (07/05/2010)

Not always what it seems - A quiet week and the malicious emails that aren't malicous... or are they? (30/04/2010)

Vendor backpedalling abounds - Well as the weekend rolls around again, we've seen a busy week for patches and updates, as well as for vendor backpedalling and triage. (23/04/2010)

Microsoft, Oracle and more... a busy week - It's that busy time of the month again, with a stack of vulnerabilities being identified and patched throughout this past week. Microsoft's monthly patch day, combined with Oracle's quarterly patch day, as well as bulletins and patches from Apple, Adobe and more, has kept admins everywhere busy. (16/04/2010)

Gearing up! - The AusCERT2010 conference is only 5 weeks away! (09/04/2010)

Red Hat Rampage and Multimedia Madness - Updates to Red Hat packages and popular music and video applications. (01/04/2010)

Apple updates OS X, Quicktime and iTunes - Apple has updated OS X, Quicktime and iTunes to correct multiple security vulnerabilities (31/03/2010)

Own One or Own Them All? - Vulnerabilities corrected in Cisco Software, Firefox and Opera. (26/03/2010)

How to outrun zombies - A number of serious vulnerabilities have been corrected this week, patching holes that can leave a system wide open. (19/03/2010)

To Skype or not to Skype - MS Patch week, Safari updates and compromise by battery charger (12/03/2010)


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