Security News

Microsoft Patch Tuesday — January 2019 Security Updates Released
2019-01-09 07:48

Microsoft has issued its first Patch Tuesday for this year to address 49 CVE-listed security vulnerabilities in its Windows operating systems and other products, 7 of which are rated critical, 40...

January 2019 Patch Tuesday forecast: Partly cloudy followed by heavy fog around Java
2019-01-07 06:45

2018 ended with a bit of excitement. Shortly after November Patch Tuesday we saw a pair of Flash Player zero-days (November 20 and December 5), which were followed by just about everything...

Hope you're over that New Year's hangover – there's an Adobe PDF app patch to install
2019-01-03 20:20

Pair of critical flaws cleaned up in Acrobat, Reader Adobe has issued its first patch of the year, emitting fixes for a pair of high-risk vulnerabilities in Acrobat and Reader.…

Open-source devs: Wget off your bloated festive behinds and patch this user cred-blabbing bug
2019-01-02 11:36

New year, new security fails, new CVE Happy New Year! Oh, and if you include GNU's wget utility in software you write, pull down the new version released on Boxing Day and push out updates to your users.…

Microsoft gets users test driving Patch Tuesday’s non-security updates
2018-12-21 13:14

Are Microsoft's new C and D updates a good idea or a beta by another name?

Microsoft IE Zero Day Gets Emergency Patch
2018-12-20 14:30

Microsoft issued an out-of-band patch for a zero day bug in its Internet Explorer browser.

Microsoft Issues Emergency Patch For Under-Attack IE Zero Day
2018-12-20 07:48

Microsoft today issued an out-of-band security update to patch a critical zero-day vulnerability in Internet Explorer (IE) Web browser that attackers are already exploiting in the wild to hack...

On the first day of Christmas, Microsoft gave to me... an emergency out-of-band security patch for IE
2018-12-19 19:24

Update Internet Explorer now after Google detects attacks in the wild Microsoft today emitted an emergency security patch for a flaw in Internet Explorer that hackers are exploiting in the wild to...

Update now! Microsoft and Adobe’s December 2018 Patch Tuesday is here
2018-12-13 12:54

If you find patching security flaws strangely satisfying, you’re in luck - Microsoft’s and Adobe’s December Patch Tuesdays have arrived with plenty for the dedicated updater to get stuck into.

December 2018 Patch Tuesday: Microsoft patches Windows zero-day exploited in the wild
2018-12-12 12:43

It’s Patch Tuesday again and, as per usual, both Microsoft and Adobe have pushed out patches for widely-used software packages. The Microsoft patches Microsoft’s December 2018 Patch Tuesday...