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Microsoft patches seven distinct vulnerabilities
We have a total of six bulletins from Microsoft this month, addressing seven distinct vulnerabilities. It’s a pretty light month, but all of your focus should be on …
Apple fixes 83 vulnerabilities in Safari
Apple issued a patch for Safari, fixing 83 vulnerabilities, 72 of which were rated critical. Since Safari and Chrome both use WebKit, the open-source browser engine, it allows …
Microsoft to release 6 bulletins on Patch Tuesday
The Microsoft Security Bulletin Advanced Notification for March 2012 covers six bulletins which include one critical, four important, and one moderate. Bulletin 1 is labeled …
Apple iOS 5.1 released, updates security
Apple released the iOS 5.1 software update which comes with a variety of improvements and bug fixes. CFNetwork An issue existed in CFNetwork’s handling of malformed …
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 …
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