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Microsoft Patches 20 Vulnerabilities

Microsoft ’s October Patch Tuesday list is hauntingly large. Redmond issued 11 bulletins that address 20 vulnerabilities, nine of them rated as critical.This month’s Path Tuesday also delivered a first — Microsoft’s rankings of how likely it is for a hacker to exploit each vulnerability.

The two critical server -side vulnerabilities in Active Directory and Host Integration Server are of the greatest concern and have the potential to be quite severe, according to Ben Greenbaum, senior research manager for Symantec Security Response.

“Server-side vulnerabilities are still the mechanism of choice for attackers to modify trusted resources, and they are dangerous because they do not require any user interaction and can lead to complete compromise of the host computer,” Greenbaum said. “Once a server is compromised, the attackers typically embed further attacks against that server’s users in public-facing content.”

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October 16th, 2008

Gartner Says Virtualization Is Top Strategic Technology

Virtualization is the number-one strategic technology for 2009, Gartner said at its Symposium/ITxpo in Orlando, Fla. this week.Gartner analysts highlighted the top 10 technologies and trends it predicts will be strategic for most organizations, defining “strategic technology” as having the potential for significant impact on the enterprise in the next three years.

Taking it a step further, Gartner defines “significant impact” to include factors such as high potential for disruption to IT or the business, the need for a major dollar investment, or the risk of being late to adopt.

Gartner said the technologies impact an organization’s long-term plans, programs and initiatives. They may be strategic because they have matured to broad market use or because they enable a strategic advantage from early adoption.

“Strategic technologies affect, run, grow and transform the business initiatives of an organization,” said David Cearley, vice president and distinguished analyst at Gartner. “Companies should look at these 10 opportunities and evaluate where these technologies can add value to their business services and solutions, as well as develop a process for detecting and evaluating the business value of new technologies as they enter the market.”

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