Microsoft Official Blog and Twitter account hacked by Syrian Electronic Army

It could be the worst day ever for Microsoft's patch management and Incident response team. A group of pro-Syrian hackers 'Syrian Electronic Army' has successfully compromised the official Twitter account of the Microsoft News @MSFTNews, Xbox Support. They also defaced the Microsoft's TechNet blo...

Seven Bulletins in Microsoft's June Patch

In the June 2012 edition of Patch Tuesday, Microsoft shipped seven security bulletins, of which, only three were deemed worthy of a critical rating. This month’s critical fixes are all remote code execution vulnerabilities in Windows, Internet Explorer, and the .NET framework. The first, MS12-036...

Microsoft Ships 16 Fixes in June's Patch Tuesday

Microsoft patched nine critical vulnerabilities and seven important vulnerabilities, pushing out a total of 16 patches in the June edition of Patch Tuesday. One of the bugs patched was used to compromise Internet Explorer during the Pwn2Own contest this year. Four of the critical vulnerabilities...