Microsoft Issues Security Fixes for 56 Flaws, Including Active Exploit and Two Zero-Days

Microsoft closed out 2025 with patches for 56 security flaws in various products across the Windows platform, including one vulnerability that has been actively exploited in the wild. Of the 56 flaws, three are rated Critical, and 53 are rated Important in severity. Two other defects are listed a...

Patch Tuesday - February 2025

Microsoft is addressing 56 vulnerabilities this February 2025 Patch Tuesday. Microsoft has evidence of in-the-wild exploitation for two of the vulnerabilities published today, which is reflected in CISA KEV. Microsoft is aware of public disclosure for two other vulnerabilities. This is now the...

Microsoft Security Update Validation Report July 2023

Microsoft’s July 2023 security updates have passed Citrix testing the updates are listed below. The testing is not all-inclusive; all tests are executed against English only environments and issues may still be found upon implementation. Follow best practices for testing and installing software...

Microsoft Issues Patches for Defender Zero-Day and 82 Other Windows Flaws

For the first patch Tuesday of 2021, Microsoft released security updates addressing a total of 83 flaws spanning as many as 11 products and services, including an actively exploited zero-day vulnerability. The latest security patches cover Microsoft Windows, Edge browser, ChakraCore, Office and...

Apple Tackles Over a Dozen Bugs in its Catalina 10.15 Update

Apple wasted little time snuffing out bugs in its macOS Catalina operating system. On Tuesday, Apple rolled out 16 patches addressing a wide range of Catalina bugs in components such as CoreAudio, IOGraphics and WebKit. The security fixes are exclusively for macOS 10.15; so pre-Catalina releases ...

Anti-Virus Updates Required Ahead of Microsoft’s Meltdown, Spectre Patches

Microsoft said it is holding off delivering security updates to Windows PCs for Spectre and Meltdown CPU flaws until hosted anti-virus software confirms it does not make unsupported calls into Windows kernel memory. Affected are PCs running certain AV products that bypass Windows built-in Kernel...

Patch Management Windows Auditing Conflicts

This plugin compares vulnerabilities reported by Nessus and supplied patch management results to determine conflicts in Windows patches. The report will allow you to audit your patch management solution to determine if it is reporting properly. TRUSTED...

MS02-063: Unchecked Buffer in PPTP Implementation Could Enable DOS Attacks (329834)

The remote version of Windows contains a flaw in its PPTP implementation. If the remote host is configured to act as a PPTP server, a remote attacker can send a specially crafted packet to corrupt the kernel memory and crash the remote system. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. include"compat.inc";...

Denial of Service Attack in NetBIOS Services

Overview The NetBIOS Name Service NBNS provides a means for hostname and address mapping on a NetBIOS-aware network. The NetBIOS over TCP/IP protocols including NBNS are described in the Internet Engineering Task Force IETF Request for Comments RFC1001 and RFC1002. These protocols do not specify ...