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Know How to Choose the Best Web Hosting Company

Before actually beginning your quest to find the top web hosting company, it will be a good idea to first know and understand what a good web host is so that you can make the right choice. The web host is really a service provider who will place your website on a server that connects to the Internet. Thus, when you think about finding the best web hosting company you need to be sure that its server is fast and that the company provides near total uptime since you don’t want your website to be inaccessible to visitors because the…


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Microsoft has released an advisory related to an Office Web Components ActiveX vulnerability.

An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain the same user rights as the local user. When using Internet Explorer, code execution is remote and may not require any user intervention.
This vulnerability exists in the ActiveX control used by IE to display Excel spreadsheets. Microsoft mentions that they are aware of active exploits against this vulnerability and at the moment there is no patch, just a a workaround. Workaround refers to a setting or configuration change that does not correct the underlying vulnerability but would help block known attack vectors before you apply the update. Microsoft advisory…

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