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Apple releases fresh security updates for macOS, iOS
In the last few days, Apple has staggered security updates for many of its products, including the recently unveiled macOS Catalina. Safari, tvOS, iPadOS, iOS, iCloud, iTunes …

Majority of 2019 breaches were the result of unapplied security patches
Despite a 24% average increase in annual spending on prevention, detection and remediation in 2019 compared with 2018, patching is delayed an average of 12 days due to data …

Cisco fixes serious flaws in enterprise-grade Catalyst and Aironet access points
Cisco has released another batch of security updates, the most critical of which fixes a vulnerability that could allow unauthenticated, remote attackers to gain access to …

Adobe splats bucketful of bugs in Acrobat and Reader
If you thought that Adobe skipped this month’s Patch Tuesday because there were no immediate vulnerabilities to fix, you were wrong: a week later the company dropped …

Critical command execution vulnerability in iTerm2 patched, upgrade ASAP!
A critical vulnerability (CVE-2019-9535) in iTerm2, a macOS terminal emulator frequently used by developers and system administrators, could allow attackers to take control of …

October 2019 Patch Tuesday: A small batch of updates from Microsoft, none from Adobe
As predicted by Ivanti’s Chris Goettl, October 2019 Patch Tuesday came with a relatively small number of Microsoft updates and, curiously enough, with no security …

macOS Catalina: Security and privacy improvements
Apple has released macOS Catalina (v10.15), a new major release of its desktop operating system, which comes with many functional and security and privacy improvements. The …

Cisco closes high-impact vulnerabilities in its security offerings
Cisco has fixed 18 high-impact vulnerabilities affecting several of its security offerings and is advising administrators to test and implement the offered security updates as …

October 2019 Patch Tuesday forecast: Be sure to apply service stack updates
School is back in session across most of the world, and here in the United States most students look forward to a school holiday called ‘fall break.’ While we never have a …

Microsoft will continue providing Windows 7 security updates for SMBs
According to the latest Alert Logic’s research, most devices in small and midsize businesses (SMBs) run Windows versions that are expired or are about to expire soon. …

Guess what? You should patch Exim again!
Hot on the heels of a patch for a critical RCE Exim flaw comes another one that fixes a denial of service (DoS) condition (CVE-2019-16928) that could also be exploited by …

Microsoft drops emergency Internet Explorer fix for actively exploited zero-day
Microsoft has unexpectedly released out-of-band security updates to fix vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer and Microsoft Defender. The IE zero-day bug is deemed …