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Microsoft to release 14 bulletins patching Office, Windows, IE and .NET

September’s edition of Microsoft’s patch Tuesday advance notification has emerged in all its glory. A hefty 14 bulletins are in the offing, split equally between …

Joomla exploit doing rounds, users advised to update

Users who run their sites own sites and use the Joomla CMS but haven’t updated it in a while should do so immediately if they don’t want to see their sites …

Microsoft releases critical fixes for IE and Exchange Server

There’s a remotely exploitable, publicly disclosed, critical remote code execution vulnerability in Microsoft Exchange (MS13-061)! But wait, is it really remotely …

Microsoft to release three critical fixes

The August 2013 Patch Tuesday advance notification includes a slightly higher volume of fixes than last month, but only 3 of 8 are critical, which is down from July’s 6 …

Vendors patch security vulnerabilities within 3 weeks

High-Tech Bridge Security Research Lab released its statistics on web application security for the first half of 2013. The statistics is based on HTB Security Advisories that …

Oracle releases Critical Patch Update

Relatively quiet Critical Patch Update (CPU) from Oracle this quarter. Relative is of course subjective to Oracle, since this gigantic pile of unrelated code fixes includes 89 …

Microsoft gives app developers 180 days to fix bugs

This month’s Patch Tuesday has been a prolific one, and patches for a total of 34 vulnerabilities – six of which critical – have been made available for …

Firefox 22 delivers 14 security updates

Mozilla released Firefox 22, which includes 14 security updates: four are critical, six high, three moderate and one low. Fixed in this version: MFSA 2013-62 Inaccessible …

Oracle releases critical security updates for Java

Oracle released 40 new Java security fixes. 37 of the vulnerabilities may be remotely exploitable without authentication. This was described as the possibility of being …

Microsoft patches IE, Office and Windows

For Patch Tuesday this month, we are receiving critical updates from both Microsoft and Adobe. Microsoft has five bulletins, bringing the six-month total up to 51 bulletins, …

Microsoft to release five bulletins next week

Microsoft released advance notification for next week’s Microsoft patch and it looks like we’re getting only five bulletins. We received several comments on what …

Changes to the Java security model

The upcoming security changes in Oracle Java address three long-standing issues with the Java security model. The most significant change is how signed applets are handled. In …

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