UPDATED: The Associated Press experienced an outage for five hours Oct. 25 when its computers failed. – The Associated Press experienced a computer outage that spanned several hours Oct. 25 after its systems failed during an attempted security update.
According to a report by the AP, the problem arose around 3 p.m. EDT, when the news organization tried to apply a Microsoft patch to update security …
A new report from the SANS Institute, Qualys and TippingPoint underscores the fact that while the number of zero-day bugs is growing, the bigger threat comes from popular client-side applications such as Apple QuickTime and Adobe Reader.
– IT security has less to do with bracing for the inevitable zero-day vulnerability than some outside the industry may think.
Truth be told, the biggest threats facing users and organizations today
are unpatched client-side applications and unsecure Web programs – that
is the message of a …
Updated: Apple directs users a security patch concerning an outdated version of Java, which is applicable to Mac OS X Leopard version 10.5.8 or later.
– Computer maker Apple is alerting consumers to a security patch concerning Java for its operating system, Leopard (version 10.5.8 or later). Apple explained on its security
update Website Sept. 3 that the version of Java installed with the Leopard OS
quot;may allow an untrusted Java applet to obta…
Data from Trusteer and Qualys puts the spotlight on trouble in the vulnerability management process. It still typically takes a month for a patch to be deployed to half of vulnerable systems, Qualys reports, while Trusteer says nearly 80 percent of the computers it scans are running vulnerable versions of Adobe Flash.
– Successful exploits need not be zero-day attacks. In fact, it is often older
vulnerabilities in popular applications that are the doorknob intruders turn to
compromise systems.
This point was underscored recently by separate research from Qualys and
Trusteer highlighting some troublesome findin…
