The vulnerability of the Advanced Notification Service (ANS) management service in the HarmonyOS operating system allows a perpetrator to compromise the confidentiality, integrity, and accessibility of the protected information.

The vulnerability of the Advanced Notification Service ANS management service in the HarmonyOS operating system is related to the use of memory after deallocation. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow an attacker to compromise the confidentiality, integrity, and accessibility of the protecte...

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...

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...

January 2015 Microsoft Patch Tuesday Security Bulletins

For the first time in more than a decade, the majority of Windows IT shops walked blindly into Patch Tuesday. After announcing last week that it would no longer provide its Advanced Notification Service of upcoming security bulletins to the public, Microsoft today ladeled eight bulletins upon...

Microsoft Shuts Down Patch Tuesday Advanced Notifications

Microsoft today pulled the plug on its Advanced Notification Service ANS, offering it going forward only to paying Premier customers. ANS preceded the release of Microsoft’s monthly Patch Tuesday security bulletins; on the Thursday prior, Microsoft would provide users via its security website a...

Microsoft to End Email Security Notifications

Update: Microsoft today has reversed course on its decision to suspend security email notifications, and will resume doing so on Thursday. The original decision, made in response to Canada’s antispam law set to go into effect tomorrow, was announced on Friday. This afternoon, however, a Microsoft...