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issued two security bulletins to fix three Windows vulnerabilities, getting
Patch Tu…
Microsoft has three fixes for Windows vulnerabilities on tap for Patch Tuesday, but other security holes remain open. – Microsoft is kicking off 2011 with a small Patch Tuesday release that will feature fixes for three vulnerabilities in Windows.
The bugs will be patched via two security bulletins, one of which is
rated quot;critical quot; and affects all supported versions of Windows. The
second bulletin, rated …
In its final Patch Tuesday for the year, Microsoft plugs a total of 40 security holes, including a critical vulnerability in Internet Explorer. – Microsoft bid farewell to 2010 Patch Tuesday updates with 17
security bulletins and 40 security fixes, among them a patch for an
Internet Explorer vulnerability first disclosed in November.
Two of the 17 bulletins are rated quot;Critical quot;–the IE bulletin and
another that covers three vulne…
The continued twists and turns regarding WikiLeaks joined Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday and IE9 privacy plans as some of the top news stories of the past week. – Cyber-attacks and other twists and turns tied to the WikiLeaks
controversy continued to dominate the news this past week.
The story of the whistle-blower site has taken a number of twists and turns.
The week started with the arrest of WikiLeaks
founder Julian Assange in the U.K.
on sexual assa…
Microsoft is prepping 17 security bulletins for release next week. – Microsoft has plans for a gigantic Patch Tuesday next week to plug 40 security vulnerabilities across a number of products, including critical bugs impacting Internet Explorer and Microsoft Windows.
The bugs will be squashed by a total of 17 security bulletins, two of which are rated ‘critical. On…
The iOS 4 bug that allowed hackers to jailbreak iPhones exists in Mac OS X 10.5, or Leopard. While Apple has the patch, it wont release it. – Hackers can take advantage of a critical
vulnerability in Apple OS X to take over Macs, warned security
researchers on Nov. 8.
The vulnerability is in Leopard, an older
verson of the Macintosh operating system. Despite the release of Snow
Leopard more than a year ago, Leopard still accounts f…
This month’s Patch Tuesday release will address vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office and Forefront Unified Gateway. – Microsoft has patches planned next week for 11 security
vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office and Forefront Unified Access
Gateway.
November’s Patch Tuesday release is much smaller than the 16-bulletin, 49 vulnerability-strong update released last month. This time, there are just three bulletins, …
Adobe Systems is prepping a patch for a critical security vulnerability in Flash Player. – Adobe Systems plans to release a patch by Thursday to address a critical
vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player that the company warned users about last
week.
The update will be for Flash Player 10x for Windows, Macs,
Linux and Solaris, but the bug actually covers larger ground. The
authplay.dl…
Adobe patches Shockwave Player, but reports a new vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player. – Call it a good news, bad news situation for Adobe Systems. On the one
hand, the company patched a number of vulnerabilities Oct. 28 in Shockwave
Player; on the other hand, it issued a new advisory on a zero-day bug in
Adobe Flash Player.
The Flash Player vulnerability affects version 10.1.85.3…
Adobe is prepping a patch for a security bug in Shockwave Player that is now under attack. – Adobe Systems is planning to patch a critical vulnerability Oct. 28 in
response to the appearance of attacks.
Adobe originally issued
an advisory on the bug Oct. 21. The vulnerability exists in Shockwave
Player 11.5.8.612 and earlier, and affects both Windows and Macintosh
computers.
Attackers…
Microsoft is prepping the biggest Patch Tuesday update yet, with a total of 16 security bulletins. – Microsoft is poised to break its record for the most Patch Tuesday security
bulletins ever for the second time in 2010.
On Oct. 12, the company is set to release 16
security bulletins to cover a total of 49 vulnerabilities in Windows,
Internet Explorer, Microsoft Office and the .NET
framework. …
Microsoft pushed out an out-of-band patch to address a security issue with ASP.NET that has come under attack. – Microsoft issued an emergency patch Sept. 28 to address a vulnerability in ASP.NET.
The fix was pushed out after reports of attacks on the issue began
to surface. ASP.NET is used by developers to build Web
applications and XML Web services.
Demonstrated earlier this month by researchers at the…
Microsoft is planning to release nine security bulletins next week to cover 13 vulnerabilities. – Microsoft is planning to release nine security bulletins next week for
September’s Patch Tuesday.
The bulletins are slated to address a total
of 13 vulnerabilities. Four of the bulletins carry a rating of quot;critical, quot;
Microsoft’s highest severity rating. Among those are fixes for remot…
Adobe Systems is releasing an emergency update Aug. 19 to patch critical vulnerabilities, including a bug discussed at the Black Hat security conference. – Adobe Systems announced that on Aug. 19 it will patch a flaw in
Reader revealed at the Black Hat security conference in an emergency
update.
The update will cover critical bugs affecting Adobe Reader and
Acrobat, including one revealed by Charles Miller, principal
security analyst with consult…
Microsoft’s week involved the release its biggest-ever patch on Tuesday, a new "PC vs. Mac" Website, and talk about its strategy for both Windows Phone 7 smartphones and Windows 7 tablet PCs. – Microsoft had its biggest-ever patch on Tuesday, Aug. 10 and issued 14 new
security bulletins. Eight of those were rated quot;critical, quot; of which
four addressed high-priority vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office, Microsoft .NET
Framework, Microsoft Silverlight, Microsoft’s MPEG Layer-3 audio…
Bernanke announced additional quantitative easing yesterday, primarily in the form of buying treasuries to monetize the U.S. debt.Jeff Harding points out that those worried about deflation within the Fed won out over the scared-of-inflation camp:The Fe…
