May 2011 Patch Tuesday Overview
Microsoft has released two new security bulletins in the May 2011 edition of Patch Tuesday. These two bulletins address three vulnerabilities where none of the vulnerabilities are publicly known. The...
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Microsoft has released 16 new bulletins in the June 2011 edition of patch Tuesday. These 16 bulletins address 34 vulnerabilities. This is quite a large patch day and, to top it off, Microsoft was...
View ArticleJuly 2011 Patch Tuesday Advanced Notification
Microsoft has just released their advanced notification for the July 2011 edition of Patch Tuesday. Microsoft is planning to release 4 security bulletins addressing 22 vulnerabilities. Security...
View ArticleAugust 2011 Patch Tuesday Overview
With the August 2011 edition of Patch Tuesday, Microsoft has just released 13 bulletins addressing 22 vulnerabilities. This month marks a “heavy” month for Microsoft for Patch Tuesday. The first...
View ArticleSeptember 2011 Patch Tuesday Advanced Notification
Microsoft has announced their plans for the September 2011 edition of Patch Tuesday. Microsoft is planning to release 5 new security bulletins. Although this is Microsoft’s ‘light’ Patch Tuesday, we...
View ArticleSeptember 2011 Patch Tuesday Overview
Microsoft has released their scheduled monthly Security Bulletin release with 5 bulletins addressing 15 vulnerabilities. MS11-070 addresses 1 vulnerability in the WINS service. Only Microsoft server...
View ArticleApril 2012 Patch Tuesday Advanced Notification
Microsoft has released their Advance Notification for the upcoming April Patch Tuesday. With the six bulletins announced, Microsoft is planning to address 11 vulnerabilities. This marks Microsoft’s...
View ArticleApril 2012 Patch Tuesday Overview
Microsoft has released six bulletins addressing 11 vulnerabilities in the April 2012 version of Patch Tuesday. Marking the fourth Patch Tuesday of the year, Microsoft and non-Microsoft vendors are...
View ArticleMay 2012 Patch Tuesday Overview
Marking the May 2012 edition of Patch Tuesday, Microsoft has released seven new security bulletins addressing 23 vulnerabilities. The first bulletin administrators should address immediately is the...
View ArticleMicrosoft Releases Out-Of-Band Security Bulletin
Microsoft released one new security bulletin in their September 2012 out-of-band release. Security bulletin MS12-063 addresses the zero-day vulnerability that has been discussed lately. It is...
View ArticleDecember Patch Tuesday Advanced Notification
Microsoft has announced this month’s Patch Tuesday release. There are 11 total patches – 5 Critical and 6 Important – expected to be released on Tuesday, December 10. Here is the breakdown for this...
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Protecting my Mom – New Generation of Attacks Threaten us All
Most days I sit comfortably at my desk behind multiple layers of defenses keeping myself and my machine from harm. I sip my coffee and don’t even think about defending threats from myself, instead most...
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Security of Point-of-sale devices
Along with the rise in successful attacks on retailers, there has also been a rise in concern about the vulnerability of point-of-sale (POS) devices. Target, Subway, Nieman Marcus are all good examples...
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Integrating with 3rd Party Components: Why Java is still not being updated in...
With the Oracle CPU fresh in our minds I thought this would be a good time to discuss a well-known issue for IT Admins around the world; updating Java only to find it breaks something in your users...
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Different vendor perspectives on security and vulnerabilities. Which is...
We rely on a lot of software in this highly connected world. We have things such as The Internet of Things, BYOD, Shadow IT. All of these trendy phrases mean we have a lot more riding on the software...
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Some interesting stats regarding vulnerabilities in 2014
2014 was a big year. We saw a large number of data breaches and a variety of vulnerabilities come to light from Heartbleed to Poodlebleed to BlackPOS. Looking back on many of the major occurrences...
View ArticleJune Patch Tuesday Round-Up
We are at Patch Tuesday + 8 days and many of you are probably well in to your third round of patching machines or farther along. Here is a recap of Patch Tuesday highlights and some things to watch...
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Federal agencies, cybersecurity, and an order from the White House to step up...
Dateline 2015: US Army Website Hack Claimed by the Syrian Electronic Army China Expected to Have a Hand in the Office of Personnel Management Breach White House Orders Federal Agencies to step up...
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A look at the top 5 most vulnerable vendors from 2015
I have read a number of speculative articles recently, discussing the number of bulletins and vulnerabilities released\resolved by Microsoft. Was it due to the introduction of Windows 10, Edge and...
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Microsoft is finally pushing people off of old Internet Explorer versions
Microsoft warned us back in April of 2014 that they would be reducing support for the Internet Explorer browser to only cover the latest version available for each operating system. Well that date it...
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