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New Zealand IE8 Taskforce : IE8 and Privacy

Everything you wanted to know about the new IE8 InPrivate browsing feature that is apparently going to be part of IE8 Beta 2:

Have you ever wanted to take your web browsing “off the record”? Perhaps you’re using someone else’s computer and you don’t want them to know which sites you visited. Maybe you need to buy a gift for a loved one without ruining the surprise. Maybe you’re at an Internet kiosk and don’t want the next person using it to know at which website you bank.

Some of the specific features mentioned include:

• InPrivate™ Browsing lets you control whether or not IE saves your browsing history, cookies, and other data
• Delete Browsing History helps you control your browsing history after you’ve visited websites.
• InPrivate™ Blocking informs you about content that is in a position to observe your browsing history, and allows you to block it

• InPrivate Subscriptions allow you to augment the capability of InPrivate Blocking by subscribing to lists of websites to block or allow.

Channel 9 has also posted a 38 minute video talking about these features and privacy for IE8.

IE 8 Beta 2: Privacy is about more than cookies

New Zealand IE8 Taskforce : IE8 and Privacy

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Windows Update Tuesday The August 08 Edition

Wow – a serious bumper crop of updates out there today for Microsoft’s operating system and other software programs of their making. 

11 total updates of which 6 are critical and 5 are important.

Critical Updates

• MS08-041 - addresses a vulnerability in Microsoft Access (KB 955617)

• MS08-043 - addresses a vulnerability in Microsoft Excel (KB 954066)

• MS08-044 - addresses a vulnerability in Microsoft Office (KB 924090)

• MS08-045 - addresses a vulnerability in Internet Explorer (KB 953838)

• MS08-046 - addresses a vulnerability in Windows (KB 952954)

• MS09-051 - addresses a vulnerability in Microsoft PowerPoint (KB 949785)

Important Updates

• MS08-042 - addresses a vulnerability in Microsoft Word (KB 955048)

• MS08-047 - addresses a vulnerability in Windows (KB 953733)

• MS08-048 - addresses a vulnerability in Outlook Express (KB 951066)

• MS08-049 - addresses a vulnerability in Windows (KB 950974)

• MS08-050 - addresses a vulnerability in Windows Messenger (KB 955702)

You can read the entire August 2008 Security Bulletin for yourself to get all the specific details on the above vulnerabilities.  And when you have a moment check out all of the thank you’s that Microsoft included for this months fixes:

• ISC/SANS for reporting an issue described in MS08-042

• VeriSign iDefense VCP for reporting an issue described in MS08-043

• TippingPoint and the Zero Day Initiative for reporting an issue described in MS08-043

• Jeremy Funk for reporting an issue described in MS08-043

• Shaun Colley of NGS Software for reporting an issue described in MS08-044

• Damian Put, working with the Zero Day Initiative (ZDI), for reporting an issue described in MS08-044

• An anonymous researcher working with the iDefense VCP for reporting an issue described in MS08-044

• Damian Put, working with the iDefense VCP, for reporting an issue described in MS08-044

• Yamata Li of Palo Alto Networks for reporting an issue described in MS08-045

• Tavis Ormandy of the Google Security Team for reporting an issue described in MS08-045

• Sam Thomas, working with TippingPoint and the Zero Day Initiative, for reporting an issue described in MS08-045

• TippingPoint and the Zero Day Initiative for reporting an issue described in MS08-045

• Jun Mao of VeriSign iDefense Labs for reporting an issue described in MS08-046

• Jorge Luis Alvarez Medina of Core Security Technologies for reporting an issue described in MS08-048

• Yamata Li of Palo Alto Networks for reporting an issue described in MS08-049

• Haifei Li of Fortinet’s FortiGuard Global Security Research Team for reporting an issue described in MS08-050

• Ruben Santamarta of Reversemode.com, working with iDefense Labs, for reporting an issue described in MS08-051

• ADLab of Venustech for reporting an issue described in MS08-051

18 total – certainly clears up why there were so many fixes this month.

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