Microsoft 
‘s monthly Patch Tuesday was comparatively light after August’s onslaught of fixes. Still, there is plenty for IT administrators to tackle this month. For September, Microsoft issued four security bulletins to address eight vulnerabilities — all of them critical.”Given that the four critical bulletins deal with all the majority of current Microsoft operating systems, organizations should not be lax when rolling out this month’s patches,” said Don Leatham, director of solutions and strategy at Lumension Security. “This group addresses critical-level, remote-code execution vulnerabilities that reside on just about every Windows computer in an organization, so companies should be ready to react swiftly.”
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September 11th, 2008
In a move to drive more traffic through its network, AOL on Tuesday opened its home page to other e-mail providers, including Google’s Gmail.AOL’s mail-aggregation feature lets users access e-mail accounts from Yahoo, Gmail and Hotmail, in addition to AOL and AIM Mail. What’s more, the mail preview panel gives users the status of their AOL, Gmail and Yahoo accounts, so users can see new messages as they arrive. Users can navigate directly to new messages by clicking on the message link. Users can also click a link to launch a window to compose a message.
“We know that consumers today have multiple e-mail accounts on different services to keep tabs on daily, and we want to make it easier for them,” said Bill Wilson, executive vice president of programming at AOL. “This is an important first step in opening up AOL.com and giving users the ability to populate the AOL.com home page with content and services they use on a daily basis, regardless of where it lives.”
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September 11th, 2008
