New Critical flaws in IE and Outlook discovered by eEye

December 18th, 2005 A critical vulnerability, found in some versions of Apple's popular iTunes software, could enable attackers to remotely take over a user's computer, according to a warning issued by eEye. This flaw existed on the earlier version of iTunes 6 for Windows and was not addressed by the latest security update.

August 12th, 2009 Microsoft has released nine patches to fix 19 security vulnerabilities affecting multiple Windows systems. The patches would address multiple critical ActiveX and Windows Media File loop holes that could invite hackers malicious attacks.

June 21st, 2006 While Microsoft developers are scrambling to patch a security hole in Excel, a hacker has now posted code that exploits a second vulnerability in the popular spreadsheet software. Microsoft says that criminals are not yet using this code in attacks, but the software could be used to run unauthorised programs on a PC, according to Marc Maiffret, chief hacking officer at security software vendor eEye Digital Security.

February 3rd, 2007 I recently faced a strange situation where my mail server was showing over 700 emails but Microsoft Outlook was failing to download them with timeout error. The problem was that it wasn't downloading even a single email.

November 18th, 2004 Please see my post on XP at Critical Commentary : Weblog This is another weblog by yours truly. It will focus on critical commentaries on products & technologies.

June 18th, 2009 The launch of App Sync software was Google's most aggressive move challenging Microsoft's stronghold in enterprise market. According Google's claims its app was designed to allow the users to switch to Google Apps while retaining the Microsoft Outlook interface.

August 13th, 2009 Microsoft says Office for Mac will have OutlookREDMOND, Wash. — Microsoft Corp.

August 28th, 2006 Omid has discovered a vulnerability in Mambo & Joomla, which can be exploited by malicious users to conduct SQL injection attacks. Input passed to the "id" parameter when editing content isn't properly sanitised before being used in a SQL query.

March 12th, 2009 We all want to be unique in our own way. In other words, we all try to leave our signature in whatever there is as ours.

July 8th, 2005 After recent reports of several critical security vulnerabilities of PHP based software. I decided to take a closer look at the current state of security with PHP based products.

May 9th, 2005 Discussion of the vulnerabilities and how to temporarily fix them before FireFox comes up with 1.04 update.

May 12th, 2005 A discussion on the update and how to install it.

March 19th, 2009 How to Send large files (say more than 1GB!) through Microsoft Outlook 2007? Did you ever have a question like this? Here is a solution now. E-mails have become indispensable for all of us both professionally and personally.

May 29th, 2006 Symantec's antivirus software, which protects some of the world's largest corporations and US government agencies, suffers from a flaw that lets hackers seize control of computers to steal sensitive data, delete files or implant malicious programs, researchers from eEye Digital Security said. Symantec is investigating the issue.

September 11th, 2009 Microsoft Outlook is one of the most widely used desktop email clients that allows you to read emails, schedule appointments, take notes, manage your contacts all from your desktop. Now if you use Microsoft Office in your business environment it’s most likely that you spend a lot of time using the Outlook email program.