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February Patch Tuesday lighter than expected
It turns out that this February Patch Tuesday is lighter than we had anticipated. Some of the nine bulletins should be less worrisome to IT admins: the Office vulnerability …
Mac OS X Lion 10.7.3 released
The 10.7.3 update is recommended for all OS X Lion users and includes general operating system fixes that improve the stability, compatibility, and security of your Mac. The …
Critical flaws in Symantec’s pcAnywhere patched
After having been notified by Symantec about the theft of the software’s old source code and the increased security risk that incident entails for them, users of the …
Oracle patches 78 vulnerabilities
Oracle publishes Critical Patch Updates (CPUs) on a quarterly schedule. Oracle released its January edition with patches for a majority of their product line: Oracle Solaris: …
Microsoft releases seven bulletins
2012’s first Patch Tuesday has seven bulletins, including the postponed bulletin from December 2011 that addresses the BEAST style information disclosure. Talking about …
Microsoft releases MS11-100 for ASP.NET DoS attack
Today Microsoft released a security bulletin addressing a flaw in ASP.NET that was disclosed early morning yesterday at the Chaos Communication Congress (CCC) in Berlin. …
Firefox 9 closes security holes
Mozilla released Firefox 9 that fixes several security and stability issues. Crash when plugin removes itself on Mac OS X FireBreath developer Richard Bateman reported a crash …
Windows 8 to do away with constant restarts after updating
I don’t know a single Windows user who isn’t annoyed at the number of times the operating system requires a restart, and especially annoyed when the request …
Adobe patches Shockwave Player
Critical vulnerabilities have been identified in Adobe Shockwave Player 11.6.1.629 and earlier versions on the Windows and Macintosh operating systems. These vulnerabilities …
Firefox 8.0 brings security and stability fixes
Mozilla released Firefox 8.0 that fixes several security and stability issues. Add-ons installed by third party programs are now disabled by default, as if add-on management …
New Facebook security features
Facebook will be adding two new security features that will allow users to regain control of their account if it gets hijacked and to use a unique password for different third …
October 2011 Patch Tuesday fixes 23 vulnerabilities
In today’s Patch Tuesday, Microsoft delivers 8 security bulletins (two rated “critical,” six “important”) that address 23 vulnerabilities …