Wednesday, April 28th, 2010 IronKey has launched its Trusted Access for Banking USB stick at InfoSec 2010 in London. The IronKey TAB uses an isolated virtual machine launched from the stick and a intermediate server accessed through a VPN like connection to create a secure channel from the user to IronKey's servers, and from ...
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Wednesday, April 7th, 2010 For consumers, open up the Preferences panel and click on "Trust Manager" in the left pane. Clear the check box "Allow opening of non-PDF file attachments with external applications".For administrators who wish to accomplish this with a registry setting on Windows, add the following DWORD value to:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Acrobat Reader\\Originals
Name: bAllowOpenFile
Type: REG_DWORD
Data: ...
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Tuesday, March 16th, 2010 Microsoft has released a Microsoft security advisory about this issue for IT professionals. The security advisory contains additional security-related information. To view the security advisory, visit the following Microsoft Web site:http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/981374.mspxTwo Fix it solutions are available:Fix it solution for peer factory in iepeers.dll - We have created an application compatibility ...
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Monday, March 8th, 2010 Energizer DUO is a USB battery charger. Included with the charger is a Windows application that allows the user to view the battery charging status. The installer for the Energizer DUO software places the file UsbCharger.dll in the application's directory and Arucer.dll in the Windows system32 directory. When the Energizer ...
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Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010 Microsoft is investigating new public reports of a vulnerability in VBScript that is exposed on supported versions of Microsoft Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows Server 2003 through the use of Internet Explorer. Our investigation has shown that the vulnerability cannot be exploited on Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, ...
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