Tuesday, December 8th, 2009
A good game can be good on any platform. But then there's the perfect iPhone game, which is another matter entirely »
Tags: after-the-jump, another-matter, booting, find-out, game diaries, good-game, jump, latest games, may-very, nintendo, perfect, probably-never, the-jump
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Tuesday, December 8th, 2009
This morning we released six security bulletins, three Critical and three Important, addressing 12 CVE’s. Please apply the Internet Explorer update right away as it poses the most risk of all the bulletins due to severity and exploitability. The Internet Explorer update addresses the vulnerability described by Security Advisory 977981 »
Tags: 2003-or-earlier, engineering, exploit-code, exploitability, internet, mitigations, month, project, rating, risk asessment, Security Updates, vulnerability, windows, windows-server
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Tuesday, December 8th, 2009
This month, Microsoft is releasing several non-security updates that implement Extended Protection for Authentication as a mechanism to help safeguard authentication credentials on the Windows platform. These new updates are not security bulletins, but non-security updates that allow web clients using the Windows HTTP Services, IIS web servers and applications based on the... »
Tags: application, design, exploit, exploit-code, extended, manager, microsoft, server-, tools, user, windows, windows-server
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Tuesday, December 8th, 2009
Empire: Total War developers Creative Assembly have finally released their overdue multiplayer support for the game's campaign mode. Sort of. It's a beta. »
Tags: creative, disable-their, extreme computing, finally-gets, game, incessant, its-multiplayer, new-units, only-works, overdue, released-their, strategy games, terrible, total
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Tuesday, December 8th, 2009
My favorite thing about this Xbox 360 casemod is the crackling crumbling effect that makes the Xbox look like it's falling apart. Because that pretty much describes every 360 I've had »
Tags: adorns-console, creative, crumbling-effect, disable-their, every-360, finally-gets, latest games, new-units, released-their, strategy games, terrible, the-crackling, xbox, xbox 360
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Tuesday, December 8th, 2009
Dog sidekicks have come a long way since they were invented in Nethack . Here's a screenshot from the classic dungeon crawler: d Contrast this to the crotch-eating dog in Dead to Rights: Retribution »
Tags: after-the-jump, extreme computing, galleries, play-as-jack, posting, release-blurbs, retribution, rights, screenshots, seamless-combat, were-invented
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Tuesday, December 8th, 2009
Mary Jo Foley has a very interesting post in which she describes an interview she had with Microsoft regarding the results early adopters have seen with Windows 7. The news thus far is incredibly positive, but the spin here, of course, is around application compatibility. And according to Microsoft, this just isn't the... »
Tags: chief, deployment-now, discussed-some, judah, lotus-notes, remedies, upgrade-sooner, windows, windows 7
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Tuesday, December 8th, 2009
Bulletin Severity Rating:Important - This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in Microsoft Windows. The vulnerability could allow a denial of service if a remote, authenticated attacker, while communicating through Internet Protocol security (IPsec), sends a specially crafted ISAKMP message to the Local Security Authority Subsystem Service (LSASS) on an affected system. »
Tags: authority-subsystem, bulletin-severity, internet-protocol, local-security, lsass, more-severe, privately-reported, security, security-update, severity, specially-crafted, vulnerabilities
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Tuesday, December 8th, 2009
Bulletin Severity Rating:Important - This security update resolves two privately reported vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows. The more severe of these vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution if an attacker sent a specially crafted HTTP request to an ADFS-enabled Web server »
Tags: attacker-sent, exploit-either, microsoft, more-severe, privately-reported, remote-code, security, severity, specially-crafted, successfully-exploited, vulnerabilities
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Tuesday, December 8th, 2009
Bulletin Severity Rating:Critical - This security update resolves two privately reported vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows. These vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution if messages received by the Internet Authentication Service server are copied incorrectly into memory when handling PEAP authentication attempts »
Tags: internet, less-impacted, privately-reported, resolves-two, security, severity, successfully-exploited, vulnerabilities, vulnerability
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