Security News

Electron patched the patch after researcher broke the patch
2018-05-25 02:55

January's fix had blacklist flaw, now fixed In an update last week, the developers of the Electron shipped a patch to their January patch, and now, an infosec researcher has explained why.…

Spectre isn't dead: Here are 2 new variants IT should patch against
2018-05-22 12:29

These new vulnerabilities in the Spectre and Meltdown family-Speculative Store Bypass and Rogue System Register Read—require further microcode patching of CPUs.

DrayTek router user? Patch now to keep the crooks out…
2018-05-22 11:30

DrayTek has announced a security hole in its Vigor range of routers.

RedHat admins, patch now – don’t let your servers get pwned!
2018-05-16 15:10

A command injection bug in Red Hat's DHCP client could allow an attacker to run any command on your computer. As root.

Red Hat admin? Get off Twitter and patch this DHCP client bug
2018-05-16 02:58

Proof-of-concept fits in a Tweet and can take down all of RH's best bits Red Hat has announced a critical vulnerability in its DHCP client and while it doesn't have a brand name it does have a...

Electron spins out a patch for bad XSS bug
2018-05-14 00:11

Attacker could skip past developer protections and get nasty Electron developers need to check their apps, after a security researcher turned up a remote code execution bug in the framework.…

Windows-crashing bug not patch-worthy, says Microsoft
2018-05-10 10:55

When is a bug not a bug? That's the question raised by researcher Marius Tivadar's latest Windows-crashing proof of concept.

Patch now! Microsoft and Adobe release critical security updates
2018-05-09 16:23

...And the Microsoft vulnerabilities include 0-days. Get the patches now!

IT: Patch these critical new vulnerabilities in Windows, Adobe, and OS kernels
2018-05-09 12:49

Hackers could be currently exploiting one of the Windows vulnerabilities addressed in Patch Tuesday.

May Patch Tuesday Fixes Two Bugs Under Active Attack
2018-05-08 20:42

In total, Microsoft’s May Patch Tuesday roundup included 68 security patches, with 21 listed as critical, 45 rated important and two listed low in severity.