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Brute Force Attack Against WordPress
Anyone who knows me knows that I’m a total WordPress addict. I love the platform for developing websites and have done a ton of custom development for the Virtual Administrator website as well as many others. However, with the popularity WordPress has gained, it has also gained a lot of attention from the hacker world.…
Virtual Administrator’s April 2013 Patch Recommendations
9 Security Bulletins were released – 2 Critical, 7 Important, and 0 Moderate Noteworthy Patch News MS13-036 has been denied in all VA patch policies. All of the remaining patches have been approved. MS13-028 is a cumulative update for Internet Explorer and MS13-29 is for RDP. They are rated Critical. After your next patch cycle…
Problems with MS13-036/KB 2823324 Patch – Do not install
***EDIT*** We’ve created a script for removing this patch available here: https://virtualadministrator.com/scripts/uninstall-kb2823324/ Partners, Kaseya, Kaspersky and the industry are reporting problems with recently released patch MS13-036/KB2823324. It is currently recommended to NOT install this patch, and if you have already installed it, UN-install it BEFORE rebooting your computer.
Virtual Administrator’s March 2013 Patch Recommendations
7 Security Bulletins were released – 4 Critical, 3 Important, and 0 Moderate We have not uncovered any widespread problems with any of these patches and are releasing all of them. Noteworthy Patch News MS13-021 addresses flaws found on Internet Explorer versions 6 to 10 for all versions of Windows. This has already been publicly…
Virtual Administrator’s February 2013 Patch Recommendations
12 Security Bulletins were released – 5 Critical, 7 Important, and 0 Moderate Out-of-band updates MS13-008 released on January 14 Virtual Administrator approved the patch as soon as it became available. https://virtualadministrator.com/blog/out-of-band-update-released-on-january-14-ms13-008/ Noteworthy Patch News We have not uncovered any widespread problems with any of these patches and are releasing all of them. This is…
Kaspersky (Kaseya's KAV vendor) does well in 2012 Comparison
I often read threads how one IT person thinks “X” AV is better, and others swear “Y” is better, but I ran across a non-profit Australian organization called the Institute for Security in Information Technology – AV-Comparatives, who does on-going research and testing into how well different AV products ACTUALLY work. For 2012, I was happy…