Critical Windows Kernel Flaw Highlights Patch Tuesday

Guest editorial by Jason Miller Microsoft has released six new security bulletins in November’s Patch Tuesday. Administrators are getting a bit of a break after last month’s mammoth security bulletin release. MS09-065 is the first bulletin administrators should address. This bulletin affects the...

Microsoft: Pay Special Attention to MS09-065 Patch

As part of its scheduled batch of patches for November, Microsoft today issued six security bulletins with fixes for a total of 15 vulnerabilities affecting its Windows and Office product lines. Three of the six bulletins are rated “critical,” meaning they can be used to launch remote code...

October Microsoft Patch Tuesday Has Something for Everyone

By Jason Miller Microsoft has released 13 new security bulletins in the October 2009 version of Patch Tuesday. Eight bulletins have a severity rating of Critical. The remaining five security bulletins have a severity rating of Important. For the first time, Windows 7 and Windows 2008 R2 are...

Microsoft Ships Largest Batch of Security Patches

Microsoft today released its largest ever batch of Patch Tuesday updates to fix a whopping 34 security holes in a wide range of widely deployed software products. The latest patch batch covers critical vulnerabilities in software products that are bundled with Microsoft’s dominant Windows operati...

Patch Tuesday Heads-Up: 13 Bulletins, 8 Critical

Microsoft is planning a bumper Patch Tuesday next week — 13 bulletins covering 34 security vulnerabilities in a wide range of products. Eight of the 13 bulletins will be rated “critical,” Microsoft’s highest severity rating. According to Microsoft’s advance notice, the patches coming on October 1...

Patch Tuesday: Microsoft Plugs Windows Worm Holes

Microsoft today released a peck of patches to cover at least seven documented worm holes in the Windows operating system. The most serious of the vulnerabilities addresses could lead to remote code execution complete system takeover attacks. The September batch of patches does not address the FTP...

Inside Microsoft Patch Tuesday: Revenge of the ActiveX Controls

Microsoft has released nine bulletins today, five of them Critical, four of them Important. The bulletins cover a gamut of affected products – almost everything in your enterprise will need to be patched today with the exception of Internet Explorer. No IE patches this month! The majority of...

On the Twitter DDoS Attacks, Apple and Microsoft Patches

Threatpost editors Ryan Naraine and Dennis Fisher discuss the DDoS attacks against Twitter, Facebook and LiveJournal and delve into Apple’s Mac OS X patch and Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday plans. SHOW NOTES: UPDATE: Twitter Suffers DoS Attack Apple Warns of Mac Attack Risk via Image Files Microsoft...

Microsoft unleashes 31 fixes on Patch Tuesday

From ZDNet Ryan Naraine Microsoft’s batch of patches this month is a big one: 10 bulletins covering a total of 31 documented vulnerabilities affecting the Windows OS, the Internet Explorer browser and the Microsoft Office productivity suite Word, Works and Excel. Five of the 10 bulletins are rate...

Coming on MS Patch Tuesday: 10 bulletins, 6 critical

Microsoft plans to ship 10 security bulletins next Tuesday June 9, 2009 with fixes for a wide range of code execution vulnerabilities affecting Windows, Microsoft Office and Internet Explorer. Six of the ten bulletins will be rated “critical,” Microsoft’s highest severity rating. See the advance...

Adobe joins Patch Tuesday barrage

Adobe joined the Patch Tuesday barrage late yesterday, dropping fixes for a pair of code execution holes affecting its Adobe Reader and Acrobat products. The critical update adobe.com addresses a publicly known vulnerability that was being exploited with booby-trapped PDF files. SEE: Inside the...

The Ryan & Roel Show Episode 2

Clickjacking: Ryan and Roel tackle browser-threat hype – Tue, October 21, 2008 The cross-browser clickjacking threat, malware on new Asus EEE machines, phishing and the elections/financial crisis, the iPhone security mess, Microsoft Patch Tuesday and the exploding fraudware/rogueware problems...

MS Patch Tuesday: 3 bulletins, 8 vulnerabilities

Microsoft’s batch of security patches for March 2009 has been released released with fixes for 8 vulnerabilities in the Windows operating system. In all, the Redmond, Wash. software maker shipped three bulletins, one rated “critical,” the company’s highest severity rating. Here are the raw detail...

Microsoft preps patches for Windows holes

According to a Patch Tuesday advance notice from Microsoft, there will be three security bulletins released on March 10, one rated critical. The other two bulletins are rated “important” and can expose Windows users to spoofing attacks. All supported versions of Windows will be affected by next...

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