Tag: vulnerability
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Giant patch release from Microsoft, Oracle
Record Patch Tuesday combines with swathe of extra fixes for corporates. It’s a busy week for corporate admins as Microsoft ‘s monthly Patch Tuesday security bulletin, containing a bumper 16 separate alerts covering nearly 50 separate vulnerabilities in the company’s software range, emerged the same day as a similarly sizeable raft of fixes from Oracle…
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Microsoft releases new fix for DLL vulnerability
Earlier workaround believed to be too complex for most users. A week after Microsoft released a fix for a DLL vulnerability that affected a large number of programs running on its operating systems, it has released a second fix for the same problem. DLLs (Dynamic Link Libraries), which contain commonly used functions, are essential to…
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Extra-large crop of updates for Patch Tuesday
Fourteen security alerts from Microsoft join two from Adobe. Microsoft ‘s monthly Patch Tuesday security bulletins came out this week, featuring a chunky 14 separate alerts with many covering multiple issues. Eight of the new alerts were rated ‘Critical’, with the remaining six marked as ‘Important’. In addition to Microsoft ‘s updates, Adobe also released…
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Android SMS trojan goes wild
Premium-rate text scam shows growing cracks in smart phone security. The first known SMS trojan affecting smart phones running Google ‘s Android operating system has been observed in the wild, highlighting growing cracks in the security veneer of the latest range of glossy smart phones. The trojan was first identified by researchers at Kaspersky Lab…
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Patches come thick and fast in major update spree
Monthly and out-of-band issues flood admins’ to-do lists. The release of this month’s Patch Tuesday security bulletins from Microsoft , with a fairly average 10 alerts covering 34 separate vulnerabilities, is accompanied by a number of additional fixes and updates which will keep security admins busy this week. Adobe has announced plans to provide an…
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Patch Tuesday release includes 13 bulletins
26 vulnerabilities featured in sizeable update set. After a relatively quiet January, administrators are faced with a hefty workload this week as Microsoft ‘s monthly Patch Tuesday security release featured 13 updates covering 26 separate issues with Windows and other Microsoft software. In five bulletins labelled ‘Critical’, remote code execution problems with TCP/IP, SMB clients,…
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IE zero-day bug fixed in Patch Tuesday updates
Serious browser bug main feature of monthly alerts, Adobe Flash issue also patched. Microsoft has released the December Patch Tuesday security bulletin, with a total of six alerts. The most significant issue covered is a serious vulnerability in the Internet Explorer browser software. Three of the six bulletins were marked as ‘Critical’, with vulnerabilities in…
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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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Another IE zero day exploited
Second DirectShow vulnerability in six weeks labelled ‘extremely critical’. Microsoft has issued an advisory on a serious vulnerability in an ActiveX control in its Internet Explorer browser, the second zero-day alert in the same area of the product in recent months. The issue has been flagged as ‘extremely critical’ by vulnerability watchers at Secunia ,…