======================================================================== The Secunia Weekly Advisory Summary 2011-06-17 - 2011-06-24 This week: 47 advisories ======================================================================== Table of Contents: 1.....................................................Word From Secunia 2....................................................This Week In Brief 3...............................This Weeks Top Ten Most Read Advisories 4................................................Secunia Community News 5................................................Secunia Corporate News 6..................................................This Week in Numbers ======================================================================== 1) Word From Secunia: CSO Online: Secunia comments on SQL injection attacks According to CSO, SQL injection attacks represent major security concerns for web developers and site owners and can cause massive website compromises. ???The attack underscores that site owners need to do better security analyses of their sites. Most companies, however, will not tackle remediating expensive vulnerabilities in their Web sites unless it is a priority from executives.??? Thomas Kristensen, CSO, Secunia. Read more: http://secunia.com/company/blog_news/articles/229 ======================================================================== 2) This Week in Brief: Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird, which can be exploited by malicious people to bypass certain security restrictions and compromise a user's system. http://secunia.com/advisories/44982/ -- A vulnerability has been reported in Piwik, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system. http://secunia.com/advisories/45003/ -- Some vulnerabilities have been reported in BlackBerry Tablet OS, which can be exploited by malicious people to disclose potentially sensitive information and compromise a user's system. http://secunia.com/advisories/45004/ -- Protek Research Lab's has discovered a vulnerability in Microsoft Word, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system. http://secunia.com/advisories/44923/ ======================================================================== 3) This Weeks Top Ten Most Read Advisories: For more information on how to receive alerts on these vulnerabilities, subscribe to the Secunia business solutions: http://secunia.com/advisories/business_solutions/ 1. [SA44964] Adobe Flash Player Unspecified Memory Corruption Vulnerability 2. [SA44784] Sun Java JDK / JRE / SDK Multiple Vulnerabilities 3. [SA44972] Mozilla Firefox Multiple Vulnerabilities 4. [SA43269] Adobe Reader / Acrobat Multiple Vulnerabilities 5. [SA44923] Microsoft Word Insufficient Pointer Validation Vulnerability 6. [SA44899] Microsoft .NET Framework JIT Object Validation Vulnerability 7. [SA44914] Microsoft Internet Explorer Multiple Vulnerabilities 8. [SA44950] Google Chrome Flash Player Unspecified Memory Corruption Vulnerability 9. [SA43811] Adobe Shockwave Player Multiple Vulnerabilities 10. [SA44982] Mozilla Firefox / Thunderbird Multiple Vulnerabilities ======================================================================== 4) Secunia Community News Network World article highlights Secunia Personal Software Inspector (PSI) ???Why the Windows 8 App Store is Good News for IT??? talks about the rumoured Microsoft Windows App Store and discusses PC security ??? in particular scanning with the Secunia PSI ??? because how many people know how secure their PCs are? Read more: http://secunia.com/company/blog_news/articles/228 ======================================================================== 5) Secunia Corporate News Be tactical in your handling of vulnerability threats The Secunia Vulnerability Manager (VIM) enables you to take pre-emptive action against vulnerabilities in a simple, cost effective way. Read more and request a free trial: http://secunia.com/products/corporate/vim/ ======================================================================== 6) This Week in Numbers During the past week 47 Secunia Advisories have been released. All Secunia customers have received immediate notification on the alerts that affect their business. This weeks Secunia Advisories had the following spread across platforms and criticality ratings: Platforms: Windows : 7 Secunia Advisories Unix/Linux : 20 Secunia Advisories Other : 2 Secunia Advisories Cross platform : 18 Secunia Advisories Criticality Ratings: Extremely Critical : 0 Secunia Advisories Highly Critical : 16 Secunia Advisories Moderately Critical : 13 Secunia Advisories Less Critical : 13 Secunia Advisories Not Critical : 5 Secunia Advisories ======================================================================== Secunia recommends that you verify all advisories you receive, by clicking the link. Secunia NEVER sends attached files with advisories. Secunia does not advise people to install third party patches, only use those supplied by the vendor. Definitions: (Criticality, Where etc.) http://secunia.com/advisories/about_secunia_advisories/ Subscribe: http://secunia.com/advisories/weekly_summary/ Contact details: Web : http://secunia.com/ E-mail : support_at_private Tel : +45 70 20 51 44 Fax : +45 70 20 51 45 ___________________________________________________________ Tegatai Managed Colocation: Four Provider Blended Tier-1 Bandwidth, Fortinet Universal Threat Management, Natural Disaster Avoidance, Always-On Power Delivery Network, Cisco Switches, SAS 70 Type II Datacenter. Find peace of mind, Defend your Critical Infrastructure. http://www.tegataiphoenix.com/Received on Mon Jun 27 2011 - 00:39:34 PDT
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.2.0 : Mon Jun 27 2011 - 00:44:44 PDT