Microsoft Fixes Malware Protection Engine and Several 0-Day Vulnerabilities, and Deprecates SHA-1

Hours before today’s Patch Tuesday release on the eve of May 8, Microsoft released an emergency updated to fix a vulnerability in their Malware Protection Engine. This critical vulnerability allows an attacker to take complete control of the victim's machine by just sending an e-mail attachment...

Emergency Update Patches Zero Day in Microsoft Malware Protection Engine

Microsoft made quick work of what two prominent Google researchers called the worst Windows vulnerability in recent memory, releasing an emergency patch Monday night, 48 hours after Google’s private disclosure was made. The mystery Windows zero day CVE-2017-0290 was in the Microsoft Malware...

Wormable Windows Zero Day Reported to Microsoft

Google Project Zero researcher Tavis Ormandy has a long legacy of finding unknown, critical software vulnerabilities to his credit. So when he calls a new bug the worst in recent memory, it’s likely not hyperbole. On Saturday, Ormandy tweeted that he and colleague Natalie Silvanovich has found a...

Recently being a hot Word 0day vulnerability has been used for malware spreading and the country attack-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Recently Microsoft Word 0day vulnerabilities is very hot, this month's Patch Tuesday, Microsoft also finally released for the CVE-2017-0199 vulnerability patch, and the previously reported difference is that this vulnerability also affects Microsoft's own WordPad. According to security firm FireE...

Patch Tuesday - April 2017

This month's updates deliver vital client-side fixes, resolving publicly disclosed remote code execution RCE vulnerabilities for Internet Explorer and Microsoft Office that attackers are already exploiting in the wild. In particular, they've patched the CVE-2017-0199 zero-day flaw in Office and...

April 2017 Patch Tuesday Video Highlights

Microsoft Fixes 45 Vulnerabilities with new Security Update Guide and says goodbye to Security Bulletins. Adobe Fixes Flash, PDF reader and Photoshop...

On Pwn2Own, Patch Tuesday, and SAP Bugs

Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook discuss the news of the week, including Pwn2Own 2017, Microsoft’s silence around February’s Patch Tuesday, and a nasty SAP bug. Download: ThreatpostNewsWrapMarch172017.mp3 Music by Chris Gonsalves...

Patch Tuesday Returns; Microsoft Quiet on Postponement

Patch Tuesday returned today as expected after last month’s postponement with a giant release of fixes that includes patches for vulnerabilities disclosed and exploited since the last set of updates in January. Microsoft, however, was relatively silent on the reasons why the February updates were...

Adobe Fixes Six Code Execution Bugs in Flash

Adobe on Tuesday patched seven vulnerabilities in Flash Player, six that could lead to code execution. The company said it isn’t aware of any of the vulnerabilities being exploited in the wild but is still encouraging users to update Flash for Windows, Macintosh, Linux and Chrome OS. The...

Unpatched SMB Zero Day Easily Exploitable

In what’s turning out to be the zero day that keeps on giving, researchers are still finding ways to exploit an unpatched denial of service vulnerability that exists in the way Windows implements the Server Message Block protocol. Details around the bug aren’t a mystery. Laurent Gaffié, the...

Google Discloses Another 'High Severity' Microsoft Bug

Google Project Zero disclosed Monday a “high severity” vulnerability it found in Microsoft’s Edge and Internet Explorer browsers that could allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code. The revelation adds yet another vulnerability to a growing list of known bugs Microsoft has been warned...

Publicly Disclosed Windows Vulnerabilities Await Patches

As a consequence of skipping its February Patch Tuesday release, Microsoft is leaving two publicly disclosed vulnerabilities unpatched with proof-of-concept exploits available for both. That raises the stakes exponentially on possible attacks, said Tod Beardsley, senior research director at Rapid...

Microsoft releases update for Flash Player, but leaves two disclosed Flaws Unpatched

Microsoft on Tuesday released security update KB 4010250 to patch flaws in Adobe Flash Player for its customers using Internet Explorer on Windows 8.1 and later, as well as Edge for Windows 10, but two already disclosed flaws remain unpatched. Just last week, Microsoft announced that its February...

Microsoft Waits for Patch Tuesday to Fix SMB Zero Day

Microsoft will not rush out an emergency patch for a zero-day vulnerability disclosed on Wednesday in the Windows implementation of the Server Message Block protocol. Researcher Laurent Gaffie announced in a tweet, below, that he’d found a zero-day vulnerability in SMBv3 and released a...

Microsoft Releases 4 Security Updates — Smallest Patch Tuesday Ever!

In Brief Microsoft has issued its first Patch Tuesday for 2017, and it's one of the smallest ever monthly patch releases for the company, with only four security updates to address vulnerabilities in its Windows operating system as well as Adobe Flash Player. Meanwhile, Adobe has also released...

Microsoft Issues Record Low Number of Patch Tuesday Bulletins

Microsoft’s first Patch Tuesday update of 2017 is one of the smallest in the history of the program with four bulletins released today, including three rated important along with Adobe’s monthly Flash Player update for Internet Explorer and Edge, which was rated critical by the vendor. The...

Adobe Patches 31 Vulnerabilities, Flash Zero-Day Under Attack

Adobe patched 31 vulnerabilities across nine different product lines Tuesday morning, including a zero-day vulnerability in Flash Player the company claims is being used in targeted attacks against Internet Explorer users on Windows. That vulnerability CVE-2016-7892 is one of 16 bugs in Flash tha...

Microsoft Patches Windows Zero-Day Flaw Disclosed by Google

Microsoft was very upset with Google last week when its Threat Analysis Group publically disclosed a critical Windows kernel vulnerability CVE-2016-7255 that had yet to be patched. The company criticized Google's move, claiming that the disclosure of the vulnerability, which was being exploited i...

Adobe Patches Nine Code Execution Flaws in Flash Player

Two weeks after rushing out an emergency patch for a zero-day vulnerability, Adobe today released another Flash Player security update. The new release patched nine vulnerabilities, all of which expose the host system to remote code execution. Adobe said it is not aware of public exploits against...

Microsoft Patches 5 Zero-Day Vulnerabilities Being Exploited in the Wild

Microsoft has released its monthly Patch Tuesday update including a total of 10 security bulletin, and you are required to apply the whole package of patches altogether, whether you like it or not. That's because the company is kicking off a controversial new all-or-nothing patch model this month...