FireEye Details Microsoft Zero Day Attack on 100 Companies

More than 100 North American companies were attacked by crooks exploiting a Windows zero day vulnerability. The attacks began in early March and involved the zero day vulnerability CVE-2016-0167 reported and partially fixed in April’s Patch Tuesday security bulletins by Microsoft. The zero day wa...

May 2016 Microsoft Patch Tuesday Security Bulletins

Microsoft released a hefty load of security bulletins today, which included a patch for a JScript and VBScript scripting engine vulnerability being publicly exploited. The flaw is addressed in its own bulletin, MS16-053, but users need to pay attention to, and apply MS16-051 as well since the...

Badlock Bug in Samba SMB Protocol

Despite the Badlock hype machine cranked up high, we don’t know much about this impending soul-crushing vulnerability other than it could be bad, it could be in the Windows Server Message Block and it already has its own requisite logo and website. Nonetheless, we have a little more than two week...

End of Life for Internet Explorer 8, 9 and 10

Microsoft has started the year with an announcement that, effective Jan. 12, 2016, support for all older versions of Internet Explorer IE will come to an end known as an EoL, or End of Life. The affected versions are Internet Explorer 7, 8, 9, and 10. What this means for users is that Microsoft...

December 2015 Microsoft Patch Tuesday Security Bulletins

Forgive your local Windows admin if they’re a little shy on holiday cheer in the coming days. Blame instead Microsoft for foisting upon them on Tuesday 71 security patches, including two for vulnerabilities in Office and the Windows kernel currently under attack. Microsoft also issued a separate...

November 2015 Patch Tuesday Brings 12 Updates, Four Critical

Microsoft today pushed out 12 bulletins as part of November’s Patch Tuesday, including four critical updates, all of which can lead to remote code execution. The update is rounded out by fixes for Windows, Lync, .NET, and Skype for Business, but there are two critical fixes that affect browsers o...

Emergency Adobe Flash Zero Day Patch Arrives Ahead of Schedule

Adobe has decided to patch the zero day vulnerability that was disclosed in Flash Player earlier this week today — instead of next week as originally scheduled. According to a security bulletin Adobe posted this morning the update actually fixes three vulnerabilities in the software, but the most...

October 2015 Microsoft Patch Tuesday Security Bulletins

Microsoft’s monthly release of security bulletins today is a relatively light load of patches to be tested and deployed. The real news, however, could be in a separate advisory in which it continues to deprecate the outdated RC4 encryption algorithm. Following its initial advisory in May that...

October 2015 Adobe Reader, Acrobat Flash Patches

Adobe today released a jumbo-sized Patch Tuesday update for Reader, Acrobat, and Flash, addressing a combined 69 critical vulnerabilities in the software, many which can lead to information disclosure and code execution. The company warned about the bugs via a blog post at its Product Security...

Microsoft issues Security Patches for Windows 10 and Edge Browser

Updated your PCs to Windows 10? Now it’s time to patch your Windows 10 software. Microsoft has issued its monthly Patch Tuesday by releasing 14 security bulletins, nearly half of it address vulnerabilities in its latest operating system, Windows 10. Four of them are marked critical, affecting...

August 2015 Microsoft Patch Tuesday Security Bulletins

Microsoft Edge wasted no time making its presence felt on Patch Tuesday today when Microsoft released the first security bulletin for the company’s new browser. Released two weeks ago along with the public debut of Windows 10, Edge, like its big brother Internet Explorer, got its own critical...

June 2015 Microsoft Patch Tuesday Security Bulletins

IT administrators today were granted a relatively light month of security bulletins from Microsoft, which is likely to be welcomed given that Windows Server 2003 security support ends in little more than a month. Microsoft today released eight bulletins, two of them rated critical, including a...

Microsoft, Adobe and Mozilla issue Critical Security Patch Updates

This week you have quite a long list of updates to follow from Microsoft, Adobe as well as Firefox. Despite announcing plans to kill its monthly patch notification for Windows 10, the tech giant has issued its May 2015 Patch Tuesday, releasing 13 security bulletins that addresses a total of 48...

May 2015 Microsoft Patch Tuesday Security Bulletins

Patch Tuesday as we know it may be on its last legs, but it’s certainly not going quietly. A little more than a week after Microsoft announced how it would revamp patch distribution and security updates starting with Windows 10, the company today released its scheduled round of bulletins—13 in al...

Dennis Fisher and Mike Mimoso on the End of the Patch Tuesday Era, Section 215 and More

Dennis Fisher and Mike Mimoso talk about the end of the Patch Tuesday era for most Microsoft customers, the appeals court ruling on Section 215 metadata collection and Dennis’s idea for a security industry commission. Download: digitalunderground201.mp3 Music by Chris Gonsalves...

May 2015 Adobe Reader, Acrobat Security Updates

Microsoft may no longer provide its customers with free advance notification of upcoming Patch Tuesday security updates, but Adobe continues to give users of its Reader and Acrobat products a gratis head’s up of what’s coming. The company yesterday said it is planning to release security updates...

Adobe Flash Player Update Patches 11 Critical Vulnerabilities

After the latest Microsoft Patch Tuesday updates that came with important patches for Stuxnet and FREAK encryption-downgrade attack, now its time to update your Adobe Flash Player. Adobe has rolled-out an update for its popular Flash Player software that patches a set of 11 critical security...

Microsoft patches Stuxnet and FREAK Vulnerabilities

Microsoft has come up with its most important Patch Tuesday for this year, addressing the recently disclosed critical the FREAK encryption-downgrade attack, and a separate five-year-old vulnerability leveraged by infamous Stuxnet malware to infect Windows operating system. Stuxnet malware, a...

March 2015 Microsoft Patch Tuesday Security Bulletins

Windows IT shops figure to be in for some scrambling today. Not only was it revealed that a five-year-old patch for a vulnerability exploited by Stuxnet was incomplete and machines have been exposed since 2010, but today is also Patch Tuesday and the updated Stuxnet patch is one of 14 bulletins...

Microsoft: All Windows versions Vulnerable to FREAK Vulnerability

Recently discovered FREAK vulnerability that apparently went undetected for more than a decade is reportedly affecting all supported versions of Microsoft Windows, making the flaw more creepy than what we thought. FREAK vulnerability is a disastrous SSL/TLS flaw disclosed Monday that allows an...