This section lists the latest news and blogs found via the daylife API (and for older items, the technorati API), which mention or otherwise discuss this vulnerability.
from: NetworkWorld
...nCircle security expert, senior security engineer Tyler Reguly, agreed "Number one on everyone's hit list today should be MS09-072, the IE patch, as this includes a patch for the current IE 0-day vulnerability. Patching IE is always crucial but given the public...
from: NetworkWorld
...update. It trumps the bunch." Richie Lai, the director of vulnerability research at security company Qualys, echoed Storms. "MS09-072 affects IE, which is a big attack surface," said Lai, "and the vulnerabilities are primed to be exploited by classic drive-by...
from: Information Week
...IE8 with its well known patching mechanism or Firefox 3 with its more aggressive patching schedule." Kandek observes that MS09-072 is the only bulletin this month that affects Windows 7 and Windows 2008 R2. After the Internet Explorer fix, Rapid7 security...
from: ComputerWeekly.com
...month particularly important for IT departments to shore-up patches and protect against web-borne malware threats," he said. MS09-072 is likely to have the greatest impact on end users as it affects all IT environments using Internet Explorer (6, 7 and 8),...
from: PC World
...critical for IE 7 on Server 2003 and Server 2008, as well as IE 8 on Server 2003 and Server 2008. For more details see the MS09-072 bulletin. A second bulletin addresses flaws in Microsoft Office Project that could be triggered by opening a malicious Project...
from: NetworkWorld
...that Microsoft had known of the flaw for longer than two weeks, however. It credited iDefense with reporting the bug in the MS09-072 security bulletin that included the IE6 and IE7 patch, a fact Storms noticed. On Wednesday, Storms pointed out the iDefense...
from: Sci-Tech Today
...patches that need to be addressed this month, the big so-what for Microsoft patches centers around the ubiquitous MS09-072 affecting all versions of Internet Explorer and carrying Microsoft's highest exploitability rating, said Paul Zimski, vice president...
from: NetworkWorld
...security advisory, and before the day was done issued a second update to report a patch would be developed. That patch, MS09-072, was delivered Tuesday as part of the regular patching cycle. "You have advisories, you have re-releases that they are announcing...
from: VNUNet.com
...Walker, regional director UK and Ireland at security solutions provider Lumension, said: "Of the three critical patches, MS09-072 is the most ubiquitous, affecting all versions of Internet Explorer and carrying Microsoft's highest exploitability rating. This,...
from: SC Magazine
...five of which are present in Internet Explorer (IE) and comprise the most pressing patch to deploy. That bulletin -- MS09-072 -- is the only patch that carries both a "critical" severity rating and Exploitability Index grade of 1, meaning consistent exploit...
from: The Register
...bulletins - three rated "critical" and three classified as "important" - tackling 12 security vulns. The critical IE patch (MS09-072) addressed five vulnerabilities, including a zero-day bug that had become the target of hacking attacks. The other two critical...
from: SC Magazine
...throughout their organisation.” Finally, Jason Miller, security and data team manager at Shavlik Technologies, said: “MS09-072 is the first security bulletin administrators should address on their network. With this bulletin, the advisory expires if administrators...
from: ZDNet
...updates appropriately. Attacker hosts a malicious webpage, lures victim to it. Public exploit code already exists for CVE-2009-3672 affecting IE6 and IE7. We expect to see exploits for other vulnerabilities that affect other IE versions within 30 days. ...
