In case anyone missed this fact: I love to write. The nerdier the content, the better. And when I heard that the JAMF Nation User Conference had a session for InfoSec (and specifically around how we do vulnerability assessments), I knew that was my kind of session. So, the marketing team was kind enough to let me write it up. Here it is on the JAMF Software blog: http://www.jamfsoftware.com/blog/jamf-software-security-and-vulnerability-assessments/.
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Office 12.1.7 for Mac Update Seems Way Too Big
The Office 12.1.7 update is out and available for download. Because this is a security fix, you should definitely run this update. Provided you use Microsoft Auto-Update you should be able to install it automatically; otherwise, Microsoft describes the update and has a download available in their KnowledgeBase. It’s a rather large update, at about 268MB. I made a snapshot and looked at what it does, and like many updates from Microsoft before it, it changes so many files it’s difficult to tell exactly (including all of the .app bundles). Per Microsoft: This update fixes vulnerabilities in Office 2008 that an attacker can use to overwrite the contents of your…