Security News

Microsoft Releases Patches for 16 Critical Flaws, Including a Zero-Day
2018-01-10 03:35

If you think that only CPU updates that address this year's major security flaws—Meltdown and Spectre—are the only ones you are advised to grab immediately, there are a handful of major security...

Microsoft January Patch Tuesday Update Fixes 16 Critical Bugs
2018-01-09 21:25

Thanks to Meltdown and Spectre, January has already been an extremely busy month of patching for Microsoft.

Microsoft Patches Zero-Day Vulnerability in Office
2018-01-09 20:33

Microsoft’s January 2018 Patch Tuesday updates address more than 50 vulnerabilities, including a zero-day vulnerability in Office related to an Equation Editor flaw that has been exploited by...

Anti-Virus Updates Required Ahead of Microsoft’s Meltdown, Spectre Patches
2018-01-09 17:43

Microsoft is pausing the rollout of Windows Meltdown and Spectre patches until hosted anti-virus software vendors confirms no unsupported Windows kernel calls via the addition of a registry key on PCs.

Bad docs and blue screens make Microsoft suspend Spectre patch for AMD machines
2018-01-09 15:31

Blue screen crashes on decade-old AMD chips seem to be widespread.

Microsoft Suspends CPU Flaw Patches for AMD Devices
2018-01-09 14:21

Microsoft Will Not Deliver Security Updates to Devices With Incompatible Antiviruses read more

Microsoft Patches for CPU Flaws Break Windows, Apps
2018-01-08 16:22

Users have complained that the updates released by Microsoft last week for the Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities cause problems on computers with AMD processors. read more

Warning: Microsoft Fix Freezes Some PCs With AMD Chips
2018-01-08 12:48

Meltdown and Spectre Security Update Bricks Some PCs With Athlon CPUsSecurity teams are scrambling to put fixes for the Meltdown and Spectre flaws in place. But Windows users report that...

Microsoft Word subDoc Feature Allows Password Theft
2018-01-05 16:08

A feature in Microsoft Word that allows for the loading of sub-documents from a master document can be abused by attackers to steal a user’s credentials, according to Rhino Security Labs. read more

Meltdown and Spectre: Here’s what Intel, Apple, Microsoft, others are doing about it
2018-01-05 13:52

Intel, Microsoft, ARM, and others have responded. We dig in.