Tag: patch tuesday
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Bumper crop of October patch releases
Busy weeks for admins as Patch Tuesday joined by Adobe fixes, and Mozilla announces plug-in checking plans. This week has seen Microsoft ‘s monthly Patch Tuesday release of security updates, featuring a larger than usual 13 fixes, joined by a set of patches from Adobe for its widely-used PDF-handling software. With home and business users…
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Patch Tuesday brings little relief from browser exploits
Six fixes issued, but new IE zero day emerges along with Firefox flaw. Microsoft has issued its monthly ‘Patch Tuesday’ security update, with some serious browser flaws patched, but a new IE zero-day has been seen being exploited in the wild, and Firefox users have also been warned about a serious vulnerability. The Patch Tuesday…
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Eight fixes for April Patch Tuesday release
Five critical updates in latest monthly patch release. The April Patch Tuesday release from Microsoft , revealed this week, contained five updates rated ‘critical’, as well as two deemed to be ‘important’ and one assigned a less urgent ‘moderate’ rating. The five critical patches cover vulnerabilities in the Microsoft WordPad and Office text converters, vulnerabilities…
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March Patch Tuesday followed by PDF viewer patches
Major kernel issue and PDF problems fixed, spreadsheet software remains vulnerable. Microsoft released the March security bulletin this week, with the monthly Patch Tuesday updates rather lighter than usual. On the same day, Adobe released some important patches for its widely used PDF viewing software. From Microsoft came a single ‘critical’ fix for the Windows…
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IE fixed as usual in Patch Tuesday release
Browser should be treated as special case, say some. The February ‘Patch Tuesday’ security bulletin from Microsoft this week contained four patches, two of them marked ‘Critical’, of which one was a ‘cumulative’ set of fixes for a selection of problems with the Internet Explorer browser. With flaws in the ubiquitous web-surfing tool a regular…
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MS to release out-of-band patch for critical IE vulnerability
Users advised to patch ASAP. Microsoft is set to release an emergency out-of-band patch for the vulnerability in its Internet Explorer browser reported last week. Attacks via the vulnerability have been shown to work on a wide range of Windows and IE variants, and have been widely seeded to both malicious websites and legitimate sites…
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IE zero-day danger growing
Large numbers of users vulnerable to unpatched problem. The as-yet unpatched vulnerability in Microsoft ‘s Internet Explorer browser, reported last week and coinciding with the release of the monthly ‘Patch Tuesday’ security updates, is becoming more serious by the day as more and more infected websites appear to be attempting to exploit the flaw to…
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FTC goes after scareware scammers
Courts crack down on pushers of rogue anti-malware. The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has announced a successful move to persuade a US district court to shut down a major player in the rogue anti-spyware business. The company behind the notorious WinFixer and XP Antivirus scams has been issued with a temporary restraining order barring…
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Patch Tuesday released closely followed by emergency update
Bumper crop of patches plus further fix leave known holes open. This month’s ‘Patch Tuesday’ security bulletin from Microsoft contained eight separate updates, two more than previously announced, covering a total of 28 vulnerabilities. Six of the updates were labelled ‘critical’, although some sources rate all equally high and find the flaws covered susceptible to…
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Two updates in Microsoft’s November’s patch release
Just two updates released by Microsoft this month: one rated critical, one important. Microsoft has issued two updates in the November round of its monthly patch release cycle, one of them rated ‘critical’. The critical update addresses vulnerabilities in Microsoft XML Core Services which could be exploited to create a web page that would cause…