Tuesday, February 9th, 2010
It took me a little bit to warm up to Bioshock 2 . But once I warmed up to, I fell in love with it on several different occasions. »
Tags: bioshock, entire, gun-caught, jump, latest games, little-bit, more-times, once-during, shoulders, splicer-on-fire, the-entire, upgraded
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Tuesday, February 9th, 2010
This morning, we released 13 security bulletins. »
Tags: authenticated, cve, mitigations, office, point-viewer, power, rating, see-working, sends-malicious, system-on-local, viewer, vulnerability, windows
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Tuesday, February 9th, 2010
Today we are releasing MS10-007 to address a URL validation issue generally applicable to the ShellExecute API. »
Tags: applications, cve, defense-in-depth, handles-strings, issue, mitigations, parameter, point-viewer, rating, sends-malicious, shellexecute, system-on-local, vulnerability
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Tuesday, February 9th, 2010
Today we released two bulletins to address vulnerabilities in SMB. MS10-006 addresses two vulnerabilities in the SMBv1 client implementation, and MS10-012 addresses four vulnerabilities in the SMB server implementation. In this blog entry, we want to help you understand the vulnerabilities and better prioritize the updates »
Tags: client, handles-strings, issue, mitigations, point-viewer, race, severity, smb, vulnerabilities, vulnerability, windows-server, windows-vista, winsock-kernel
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Tuesday, February 9th, 2010
Free downloadable content for Mass Effect 2 goes live today. So long as you've registered with the Cereberus Online Network, you get a set of armor that's not only stylin' (pictured), but is particularly useful for adding 10% to your heavy weapons capacity. »
Tags: actual, cereberus, downloadable content, effect, enough-ammo, free-shotgun, guess-it-beats, heavy, heavy-pistol, network, outfit, probably-never, your-actual
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Tuesday, February 9th, 2010
Security Advisory 977377: Vulnerability in TLS Could Allow Spoofing In August of 2009, researchers at PhoneFactor discovered a vulnerability in the Transport Layer Security (TLS) and Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocols. As the issue is present in the actual TLS/SSL-standard, not only our implementation, Microsoft is working together with ICASI, the Industry Consortium... »
Tags: client, issue, mitigations, security, smb, ssl, victim, windows-server, workarounds
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Tuesday, February 9th, 2010
Need for Speed: Shift doesn't have nearly as many cars as its main rival Forza 3 , which has somewhere in the neighborhood of 16,000 cars. Once you count all the Ferrari variants, I think it's closer to 20,000 cars »
Tags: actual, complete, driving, endurance, endurance-races, ferrari, free-shotgun, heavy, online-ferrari
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Tuesday, February 9th, 2010
Are you as depressed I am that the next Lego game after Lego Harry Potter is drawing once again from Lucas' bottomless Star Wars well? LEGO® Star Wars III: The Clone Wars will include all the characters from both seasons of the hugely popular animated television series, Star Wars: The Clone Wars, as... »
Tags: action games, actual, beloved, characters, clone-wars, endurance-races, ferrari, free-shotgun, harry-potter, long-distance, rings, separatist, such-as-squad, well-as-some
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Tuesday, February 9th, 2010
Amazon.com is having a Crazy Eddie promotion for "Windows 7 Secrets" and select other Windows 7 books right now, so if you haven't grabbed a copy, now is the time. The book is just $26.49 for a limited time at the online retailer. As someone who has purchased Windows books from Amazon.com, you... »
Tags: book, book: windows 7 secrets, computer-topics, difference, differences, facts-on-how, online, time, ultimate
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Tuesday, February 9th, 2010
So I'm at the store and I need bananas. »
Tags: action games, actually-says, beloved, brand-uses, characters, chiquita, corner, endurance-races, extreme computing, ferrari, harry-potter, long-distance, store, well-as-some
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