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12.354.2013 - MS13-098 - Critical : Vulnerability in Windows Could Allow Remote Code Execution (2893294) - Version: 1.2

Severity Rating: Critical
Revision Note: V1.2 (December 20, 2013): Updated the Known Issues entry in the Knowledge Base Article section from "Yes" to "None". Also, added additional information to the What does the update do? vulnerability FAQ for CVE-2013-3900. These are informational changes only.
Summary: This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in Microsoft Windows. The vulnerability could allow remote code execution if a user or application runs or installs a specially crafted, signed portable executable (PE) file on an affected system.

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12.353.2013 - AMD A-Series APUs power Bentley and Northeastern university students' Cluster Competition submission to glory at Super Computing 2013

The annual Super Computing conference (SC) brings together the finest minds in the high performance computing (HPC) industry to showcase the latest technologies and research. While academics and engineers are presenting cutting-edge technology, a unique competition - the Student Cluster Competition - pits students against each other to build a cost effective and energy efficient HPC cluster.

At last month's SC'13 conference in Denver, a team from Bentley University and Northeastern University took the top spot in the Student Cluster Competition under the new Commodity Cluster track with a cluster powered by AMD's A-Series Accelerated Processing Units (APU). The team beat others from Slippery Rock University, Skyline High School and Arizona State University .

The team was comprised of five students, with Conner Charlebois, Nicholas Hentschel and Dmitry Veber from Bentley alongside Neel Shah and Tushar Swamyfrom Northeastern. The students were mentored by Bentley Professors Irv Englander and David Yates along with PhD student Yash Ukidave and Professor David Kaeli from Northeastern.

The Student Cluster Competition comprises of two tracks, with the Standard Track having no budgetary constraints and a Commodity Track placing tough power and monetary limits on competitors. Under the Commodity track, Bentley and Northeastern had to build a HPC cluster within a 15 amps power budget, with components that cost no more than US$2,500.

With such tight constraints, the students from Bentley and Northeastern performed experiments to determine the optimal configuration of compute, power utilisation and cost effectiveness and decided that AMD's revolutionary APUs offered them the best chance of winning the prestigious Competition.

As the name suggests, the Commodity Track makes takes off-the-shelf hardware to create a HPC cluster. That means anyone can buy the hardware that powered Bentley and Northeastern to glory.

The cluster's seven compute nodes were powered by AMD A-Series A10 5800K APU with the head node using an AMD A-Series A10 6800K APU, strapped into ASRock FM2A75M-DGS R2.0 motherboards. Each compute node had 8GB DDR3 clocked at 2,133MHz while the head node had 16GB DDR3 clocked at 1,866MHz. Including the supporting equipment, such as power supply units, hard drives, network switches and cables, the price for an eight node HPC cluster came out to less than US$2,500.

The Student Cluster Competition ran for 48 hours, with four industrial-strength benchmarks being used to evaluate the clusters. Prior to the competition the team knew only three of the four applications in-advance, with the final application being disclosed on event day, making the challenge of optimising their cluster even harder.

The three applications that were known prior to the competition were: weather research and forecasting, nanoelectronics modelling tools, and GraphLab. As the teams set up the eight-node APU HPC cluster, they were told the final workload was “Flying Snakes,” a computational fluid dynamics simulation. All of these applications provide a good sample of the workloads that are run on multi-million dollar supercomputer clusters.

Not only did the Bentley and Northeastern cluster win the Commodity Track, but its score over the four workloads was higher than three teams in the Standard Track. This was an outstanding accomplishment as teams on the Standard Track not only had access to 30 amps of power but also unlimited budget.

Yates said, “The Bentley University and Northeastern University students picked the AMD A10 family of APUs for its performance per-dollar. AMD’s system on-a-chip design also gave the team a symmetrical cluster design within this chip family, with x86 double precision floating point performance being most important over the course of the 48-hour competition .”

The floating point performance Yates was referring to comes from a combination of the AMD A10's multi-core x86 architecture and the AMD Radeon GPU that supports the OpenCL™ programming language.

Kaeli and his students have long seen the compute potential in APUs. He said, “We have a team here at Northeastern that has been working with APUs and OpenCL for a number of years, and together with the Bentley members of the team, we were able to be very competitive and strategic during the competition .”

The exploits of Bentley and Northeastern highlight the fundamental compute power that each AMD A-Series APU has by combining a powerful multi-core x86 CPU with a programmable AMD Radeon GPU that supports the industry standard OpenCL programming language. The ability for the team to build an eight node cluster, given the power and budget limitations set by the Student Cluster Competition, shows the incredible performance per-watt per-dollar that an AMD A-Series APU is capable of delivering to desktops, laptops, tablets and even supercomputers.

By making the smart choice, Bentley and Northeastern not only won the Student Cluster Competition in style, but showed that AMD's A-Series APUs can mix it in the competitive world of HPC.

Team members

Conner Charlebois, Computer Information Systems undergraduate (class of 2014), Bentley University

Nicholas Hentschel, Computer Information Systems undergraduate (class of 2014), Bentley University

Neel Shah - ECE undergraduate (class of 2015), Northeastern University

Tushar Swamy - ECE undergraduate (class of 2015), Northeastern University

Dmitry Veber, Actuarial Science undergraduate (class of 2014), Bentley University

Team mentors

Irv Englander, Professor Emeritus, Computer Information Systems, Bentley University

David Kaeli - ECE Professor, Northeastern University

Yash Ukidave - ECE PhD student, Northeastern University

David Yates, Associate Professor, Computer Information Systems, Bentley University

Lawrence Latif is a blogger and technical communications representative at AMD. His postings are his own opinions and may not represent AMD’s positions, strategies or opinions. Links to third party sites, and references to third party trademarks, are provided for convenience and illustrative purposes only. Unless explicitly stated, AMD is not responsible for the contents of such links, and no third party endorsement of AMD or any of its products is implied.

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12.353.2013 - AMD to Report Fiscal Fourth Quarter and Full Year Results On January 21, 2014

AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced that it will webcast its quarterly earnings conference call on Tuesday, January 21, 2014 at 5:30 p.m. EST / 2:30 p.m. PST to discuss the results of its fiscal fourth quarter and year ended December 28, 2013. All interested parties will have the opportunity to listen to the real-time audio webcas...

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12.353.2013 - Trend Micro Virus Definitions - 10.483.50

The Official Pattern Release or OPR is Trend Micro's latest compilation of patterns for identified viruses. It is guaranteed to have passed a series of critical tests to ensure that customers get optimum protection from the latest virus threats.

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12.353.2013 - Formscan is the Newest ABBYY Europe Solution Partner

Document Solutions Experts Have Demonstrated Success at Incorporating Enterprise Capture into Business SolutionsTheale, UK (19 December, 2013) - ABBYY UK Ltd., a leading provider of document recognition, data capture, and linguistic technologies and services, today announced Formscan, based in Reading, UK, is the newest ABBYY solution partner. Formscan will deploy ABBYY's Data and Document Capture solutions, based on the ABBYY FlexiCapture platform, into the marketplace. ABBYY solutions provide a wide range of features to extract... Source: RealWire

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12.353.2013 - Trend Micro Virus Definitions - 10.481.50

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12.352.2013 - MS13-098 - Critical : Vulnerability in Windows Could Allow Remote Code Execution (2893294) - Version: 1.1

Severity Rating: Critical
Revision Note: V1.1 (December 18, 2013): Updated the Known Issues entry in the Knowledge Base Article section from "None" to "Yes".
Summary: This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in Microsoft Windows. The vulnerability could allow remote code execution if a user or application runs or installs a specially crafted, signed portable executable (PE) file on an affected system.

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12.352.2013 - MS13-075 - Important : Vulnerability in Microsoft Office IME (Chinese) Could Allow Elevation of Privilege (2878687) - Version: 1.1

Severity Rating: Important
Revision Note: V1.1 (December 18, 2013): Clarified that only implementations of Microsoft Pinyin IME 2010 are affected by the vulnerability. However, this update may be offered to systems with a non-vulnerable IME. This helps to maintain consistency for shared files across Office products. For more information, see the Update FAQ.
Summary: This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in Microsoft Office IME (Chinese). The vulnerability could allow elevation of privilege if a logged on attacker launches Internet Explorer from the toolbar in Microsoft Pinyin IME for Simplified Chinese. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could run arbitrary code in kernel mode. An attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full administrative rights. Only implementations of Microsoft Pinyin IME 2010 are affected by this vulnerability. Other versions of Simplified Chinese IME and other implementations of IME are not affected.

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12.352.2013 - University of Colorado Health looks to Office 365 to improve collaboration

REDMOND, Wash. — Dec . 1 8 , 2013 — In less than three months, the University of Colorado Health (UCHealth), a new healthcare system formed by Poudre Valley Health System, University of Colorado Hospital and Memorial Health System, and one of the largest healthcare providers in Colorado, has fully migrated 17,000 mailboxes from three disparate healthcare organizations on multiple legacy email platforms into one single consolidated Microsoft Office 365 environment. Switching to a complete Microsoft enterprise subscription solution is expected to increase collaboration across UCHealth and save an estimated $13.9 million in overall costs throughout an 11-year period.

“The healthcare industry is generally hesitant to use the cloud because of security and HIPAA concerns,” said Steve Hess, chief information officer for UCHealth. “However, Microsoft’s strong commitment to data security, privacy and compliance with HIPAA standards, coupled with its willingness to sign a comprehensive Business Associate Agreement for Office 365, gave us the confidence we needed to overcome our cloud anxieties.”

UCHealth’s strategy was to integrate its legacy IT solutions into single solutions including its enterprise resource planning, electronic health records and email systems. UCHealth looked at a variety of vendors, including Google, but ultimately chose Office 365 because of its functionality and usability, and because it supports HIPAA requirements beyond what other vendors provide. In addition, UCHealth determined that Microsoft Corp. was a more strategic partner for both its long- and short-term IT and collaboration needs.

“When we decided to go with a subscription model, we knew we needed enterprise-class capabilities that offered strong support for all our needs, including offline editing, deskless workers and mobile devices,” said Fernando Pedroza, UCHealth’s vice president of Technology Services.

Differentiators for Office 365 range from enabling telework to promoting internal communications and cross-collaboration. The reliability and flexibility that comes from enablement of remote and mobile employees through the Office 365 SharePoint and Lync components, as well as Microsoft’s separate Yammer social media solution, appealed to UCHealth. With more of the healthcare workforce being mobile, and given UCHealth’s geographic spread, it was important to have additional tools available for remote collaboration and communication throughout UCHealth’s network. Specifically, Microsoft Office 365 Lync is being used to host meetings, share desktop presentations, and find appropriate individuals and expertise quickly and effectively. Meanwhile, Microsoft Yammer is being used to share information and project statuses, find expertise quickly, and celebrate organizational successes.

“In many ways, the healthcare industry is just scratching the surface of the potential applications of collaboration and social media tools,” Hess said, “but it is powerful to see how these tools are being applied, how they can drive real value to our workforce, and ultimately, how they can improve the quality of care and value for our patients.”

More information about how organizations are turning to Microsoft technology is available on the Microsoft Customer Spotlight newsroom.

Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq “MSFT”) is the worldwide leader in software, services and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential.

Note to editors: For more information, news and perspectives from Microsoft, please visit the Microsoft News Center at http://www.microsoft.com/news. Web links, telephone numbers and titles were correct at time of publication, but may have changed. For additional assistance, journalists and analysts may contact Microsoft’s Rapid Response Team or other appropriate contacts listed at http://www.microsoft.com/news/contactpr.mspx.

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12.352.2013 - Low-Cost Bluetooth® Smart Starter Development Kit launched by CSR

USD $99 SDK enables developers to bring Bluetooth Smart devices to market quickly and cost-effectively Cambridge, UK and San Jose, California, USA - 18 December 2013 - CSR plc (LSE: CSR; NASDAQ: CSRE) today announces the launch of a new low-cost development kit aimed at developers looking to get Bluetooth® Smart prototypes up and running fast then move quickly to production. Based on the proven CSR µEnergy® platform, the Starter Development Kit provides a complete... Source: RealWire

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12.352.2013 - UKFraud Predictions For 2014

Leading fraud and risk management consultancy UKFraud (www.ukfraud.co.uk) has drawn up a list of predictions for the coming year.Their fraud predictions for 2014 are:1. The Cabinet Office - The Cabinet Office's Fraud Error Debt Department will evolve quickly in 2014. With the recent demise of the National Fraud Authority, which started out in 2005 with credible strategic targets that were eroded over the years, the FED's task-force will have to work hard to deliver both... Source: RealWire

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12.352.2013 - Trend Micro Virus Definitions - 10.479.50

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12.351.2013 - DBConvert / DBSync for PostgreSQL and Oracle released.

DBConvert/DBSync for PostgreSQL & Oracle has been released. Applications support conversion and synchronization between PostgreSQL and Oracle in both directions. It takes about 5-7 minutes to transfer 1 Million of records.

Trigger-based database replication method and simultaneous bidirectional synchronization help you to manage your data easy and efficiently. You can sync your databases automatically or manually.

FInd more information at:

DBConvert for Oracle & PostgreSQL

DBSync for Oracle & PostgreSQL

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12.351.2013 - I told you I would make a prediction…

It's the time of year when I feel compelled to make fantastical predictions about the next twelve months. I'm not in the least deterred by my indifferent record of success, because I know there are parallel universes where I got it absolutely right, and it's just unfortunate for you to live in one where I'm often clueless. So blame yourself and move if this bothers you.

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12.351.2013 - AMD Radeon R7 260 GPU Brings Graphics Performance, Efficiency and Value

AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced the AMD Radeon™ R7 260 graphics card, the newest addition to the AMD Radeon™ R7 Series GPUs, a family of GPUs designed for everyday gamers and people looking to boost the graphics performance of thei...

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12.351.2013 - Year in Review: How bigger & faster drives, encryption, and new malware impacted data recovery in 2013

Kroll Ontrack reveals latest trends in data recoveryLONDON, Dec 17, 2013 - The continuing proliferation of new drive types and the ever-growing problem of malware were among the biggest trends impacting the data recovery industry in 2013, according to year-end information from data recovery and e-disclosure products and services provider Kroll Ontrack. The trends further underscore the need for businesses and consumers to understand how evolving technology affects their ability to protect and recover critical... Source: RealWire

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12.351.2013 - Colourblind Tube Map wins Transport for London App Award

The winners of Transport for London's accessible app competition, which aimed to make London's transport network more accessible to people with disabilities, were recently announced to coincide with the International Day of People with Disabilities. Designed by London-based 232Studios, Colourblind Tube Map offers a redesign of the iconic London Underground map for people with impaired visionLondon, 17th December 2013: TfL has named the winners of its accessible app competition, which aimed to find new mobile... Source: RealWire

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12.350.2013 - MS13-006 - Important : Vulnerability in Microsoft Windows Could Allow Security Feature Bypass (2785220) - Version: 1.3

Severity Rating: Important
Revision Note: V1.3 (December 16, 2013): Revised bulletin to announce a detection change to correct an offering issue for Windows RT (2785220). This is a detection change only. There were no changes to the update files. Customers who have successfully installed the update do not need to take any action.
Summary: This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in the implementation of SSL and TLS in Microsoft Windows. The vulnerability could allow security feature bypass if an attacker intercepts encrypted web traffic handshakes.

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12.350.2013 - MS13-050 - Important : Vulnerability in Windows Print Spooler Components Could Allow Elevation of Privilege (2839894) - Version: 1.1

Severity Rating: Important
Revision Note: V1.1 (December 16, 2013): Revised bulletin to announce a detection change to correct an offering issue for Windows RT (2839894). This is a detection change only. There were no changes to the update files. Customers who have successfully installed the update do not need to take any action.
Summary: This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in Microsoft Windows. The vulnerability could allow elevation of privilege when an authenticated attacker deletes a printer connection. An attacker must have valid logon credentials and be able to log on to exploit this vulnerability.

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12.350.2013 - MS13-039 - Important : Vulnerability in HTTP.sys Could Allow Denial of Service (2829254) - Version: 1.1

Severity Rating: Important
Revision Note: V1.1 (December 16, 2013): Revised bulletin to announce a detection change to correct an offering issue for Windows RT (2829254). This is a detection change only. There were no changes to the update files. Customers who have successfully installed the update do not need to take any action.
Summary: This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in Microsoft Windows. The vulnerability could allow denial of service if an attacker sends a specially crafted HTTP packet to an affected Windows server or client.

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12.350.2013 - MS13-046 - Important : Vulnerabilities in Kernel-Mode Drivers Could Allow Elevation Of Privilege (2840221) - Version: 1.1

Severity Rating: Important
Revision Note: V1.1 (December 16, 2013): Revised bulletin to announce a detection change to correct an offering issue for Windows RT (2829361) and Windows RT (2830290). This is a detection change only. There were no changes to the update files. Customers who have successfully installed the update do not need to take any action.
Summary: This security update resolves three reported vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows. The vulnerabilities could allow elevation of privilege if an attacker logs onto the system and runs a specially crafted application. An attacker must have valid logon credentials and be able to log on locally to exploit these vulnerabilities.

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12.350.2013 - MS13-054 - Critical : Vulnerability in GDI+ Could Allow Remote Code Execution (2848295) - Version: 1.3

Severity Rating: Critical
Revision Note: V1.3 (December 16, 2013): Revised bulletin to announce a detection change to correct an offering issue for Windows RT (2835361) and for Windows RT (2835364). This is a detection change only. There were no changes to the update files. Customers who have successfully installed the update do not need to take any action.
Summary: This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Lync, and Microsoft Visual Studio. The vulnerability could allow remote code execution if a user views shared content that embeds TrueType font files.

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12.350.2013 - MS13-062 - Important : Vulnerability in Remote Procedure Call Could Allow Elevation of Privilege (2849470) - Version: 1.1

Severity Rating: Important
Revision Note: V1.1 (December 16, 2013): Revised bulletin to announce a detection change to correct an offering issue for Windows RT (2849470). This is a detection change only. There were no changes to the update files. Customers who have successfully installed the update do not need to take any action.
Summary: This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in Microsoft Windows. The vulnerability could allow elevation of privilege if an attacker sends a specially crafted RPC request.

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12.350.2013 - MS13-081 - Critical : Vulnerabilities in Windows Kernel-Mode Drivers Could Allow Remote Code Execution (2870008) - Version: 1.3

Severity Rating: Critical
Revision Note: V1.3 (December 16, 2013): Revised bulletin to announce a detection change to correct an offering issue for Windows RT (2862335). This is a detection change only. There were no changes to the update files. Customers who have successfully installed the update do not need to take any action.
Summary: This security update resolves seven privately reported vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows. The most severe of these vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution if a user views shared content that embeds OpenType or TrueType font files. An attacker who successfully exploited these vulnerabilities could take complete control of an affected system.

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12.350.2013 - Trend Micro Virus Definitions - 10.477.50

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12.350.2013 - Mead & Co upgrades ScriptX 7.4 through Enhanced PDF Working option

Enables management of browser-based Adobe Acrobat document printing within web-based applications16 December 2013: To provide organisations with total control when printing web-based Adobe Acrobat documents through Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mead & Co today announced Enhanced PDF Working as an option for the recently introduced ScriptX 7.4, the global standard for controlling the printing of browser-hosted content on Microsoft Windows. Enhanced PDF Working improves the batching, appearance and consistency of printed PDFs, when printing through Microsoft... Source: RealWire

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12.349.2013 - CDBurnerXP 4.5.2.4478

CDBurnerXP is a free application to burn CDs and DVDs, including Blu-Ray and HD-DVDs. It also includes the feature to burn and create ISOs, as well as a multilanguage interface. Everyone, even companies, can use it for free.

Note: The default installed contains "OpenCandy". Be sure not to install it. Or click "More download options" on the downloads page and see if the "Default installer (Without OpenCandy)" is available.

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