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Mozilla plugs critical and easily exploitable flaw in Firefox

January 31, 2018

Firefox users would do well to upgrade to the browser’s latest release if they want to keep their computers safe from compromise. Released on Monday, Firefox 58.0.1 …

Cisco plugs critical hole in many of its enterprise security appliances

January 30, 2018

There’s an eminently exploitable remote code execution flaw in the Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software running on a number of Cisco enterprise appliances, and …

Lenovo Fingerprint Manager Pro is full of fail

January 29, 2018

Lenovo Fingerprint Manager Pro, a piece of software that allows users to log into their PCs or authenticate to configured websites using fingerprint recognition, has been …

Intel testing new Spectre fixes, tells everyone to hold off on deploying current firmware updates

January 23, 2018

Shortly after Red Hat stopped providing microcode to address variant 2 (branch target injection) of the Spectre attack, Intel has advised OEMs, cloud service providers, system …

Vulnerability in ISC BIND leads to DoS, patch today!

January 17, 2018

The Internet Systems Consortium has released security updates for BIND, the most widely used Domain Name System (DNS) software on the Internet, and a patch for ISC DHCP, its …

Oracle addresses 237 vulnerabilities across multiple products

January 17, 2018

The January 2018 Oracle Critical Patch Update (CPU) fixes 237 new security vulnerabilities across hundreds of Oracle products, including the company’s widely used Oracle …

Spectre updates will slow down Windows servers and PCs running older versions of the OS

January 10, 2018

While Intel continues to play down the slowing effect the patches for Meltdown and Spectre can have on machines using their CPUs, Microsoft has finally shared some – …

Microsoft plugs 56 vulns, including Office flaw exploited in attacks

January 10, 2018

As part of the January 2018 Patch Tuesday, Microsoft has released fixes for 56 CVE-listed vulnerabilities, including the Meltdown and Spectre flaws, and an Office bug actively …

Troubles with Meltdown and Spectre security patches

January 9, 2018

During his CES keynote on Monday, Intel CEO Brian Krzanich said that updates for Meltdown and Spectre for more than 90 percent of the company’s processors introduced in …

Browser makers move to mitigate risk of Spectre browser attacks

January 5, 2018

Apple has confirmed that it has already pushed out security updates for iOS, macOS and tvOS that mitigate the danger of users being affected by Meltdown attacks. (watchOS did …

Intel issues updates to protect systems from Spectre and Meltdown

January 4, 2018

Intel has developed and is rapidly issuing updates for all types of Intel-based computer systems – including personal computers and servers – that render those …

Meltdown and Spectre: Data theft hardware bugs affect most modern CPUs