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Oracle today released fixes for 36 critical vulnerabilities, marking one of the smallest patch updates since the database giant began issuing quarterly distributions more than two years ago. The Service Level Agreement (SLA) for the Threat Manager offering ensured response within 30 minutes of the detection and escalation of security incidents. Due to the interactive nature and required access to exploit, local privilege escalation vulnerabilities have traditionally been thought to have a minimal impact on the strategies enterprise IT departments incorporate to protect networks when compared to other code execution vulnerabilities. Secunia yesterday released a highly critical advisory for multiple vulnerabilities in several Kaspersky Lab products that could allow remote attackers to access or steal files and local attackers to bypass security measures. Yahoo has updated its instant messaging platform to protect against a vulnerability that can allow remote attacks. Researchers from numerous security vendors have reported multiple remotely exploitable flaws in IBM Lotus Domino products. Debian released a patch to fix multiple vulnerabilities in OpenOffice that open up the users' systems to compromise, Secunia reported on Wednesday. Sourcefire has urged users of its popular Snort intrusion-prevention technology to upgrade to a newer version of the product to fix a recently discovered vulnerability. Researchers attending RSA Conference 2007 yesterday announced a new vulnerability - with a working exploit - that they said demonstrates Microsoft's Windows Vista's weakest link: its third-party software. A vulnerability in Citrix Presentation Server Client that can be exploited by attackers to compromise a PC was reported this week. Apple has plugged eight vulnerabilities in QuickTime by announcing the release of a new version. Trend Micro has confirmed a vulnerability in its Scan Engine application that could be exploited by malicious users to take control of an affected system. A car that has less options has fewer things that can break. Power steering, power locks, power seats, seat warmers, and the myriad of other car features provide a better experience, but they also have more items that require maintenance. Software developer makes under the hood changes between RC1 and RC2 releases. Adobe released a patch on Tuesday for a flaw that could allow a malicious PDF document to trigger buffer overflow. A flaw has been reported in Sun Microsystems Java Runtime Environment that can be exploited by a malicious user to compromise an affected system. Hours after hackers posted public code designed to take advantage of the recently patched Microsoft vector markup language (VML) vulnerability, VeriSign iDefense security researchers discovered a private, in-the-wild exploit attacking the bug. A highly-critical vulnerability in Mac OS X that can be exploited to compromise users' systems was disclosed on Thursday. Two vulnerabilities were reported today in a CA backup and recovery solution that, if exploited, could allow an attacker to execute remote code and gain unauthorised administrative privileges. There's been plenty of talk about the security capabilities of Windows Vista, but what's at the heart of the security defenses within Microsoft's latest operating system? This article aims to take a close look at the technology that will make a difference.