Security News

Oracle releases emergency Oracle Identity Manager patch
2017-10-31 14:56

Oracle has issued an out-of-cycle patch that plugs a critical vulnerability (CVE-2017-10151), affecting Oracle Identity Manager, its widely-used enterprise identity management system that is part...

Oracle fixes 252 vulnerabilities in October 2017 Critical Patch Update
2017-10-18 15:50

Oracle has released its Critical Patch Update (CPU) for October 2017, addressing 252 vulnerabilities across the wide multitude of its products. Compared to the July 2017 CPU, this one addresses...

Oracle Fixes 252 Vulnerabilities in October 2017 Patch Update
2017-10-18 15:44

Oracle on Tuesday released its Critical Patch Update (CPU) for October 2017 to address a total of 252 security vulnerabilities across multiple product families. More than half of the bugs may be...

Oracle Patches 250 Bugs in Quarterly Critical Patch Update
2017-10-17 22:13

Three critical SQL injections vulnerabilities in Oracle's popular E-Business Suite make up a total of 250 bugs patched for the company's quarterly Critical Patch Update,

October Patch Tuesday: 61 bugs and one zero-day fixed
2017-10-11 19:57

For its October Patch Tuesday, Microsoft has patched 61 vulnerabilities (27 of them critical) and one Office zero-day labeled as “important.” The zero-day The memory corruption zero-day...

Adobe Releases No 'Patch Tuesday' Security Updates
2017-10-10 17:20

Adobe released an update for Flash Player on Tuesday, but it does not include any security fixes. If no patches are released by the end of the month, it will be the first time since July 2012. read more

Varied Patch Process by Microsoft Exposes Windows Users: Google Researcher
2017-10-09 18:38

Not all Windows releases receive the same treatment when it comes to security patches, leaving some users exposed to known vulnerabilities, security researchers from Google's Project Zero team...

In wake of recent attacks, it’s time to revisit your patch policy
2017-10-06 14:30

Hurricanes hammered the United States last month and cyber attacks continue to rain down throughout the world. The EternalBlue v1SMB vulnerability continues to be a focus of attacks. Recent...

Emergency Apple Patch Fixes High Sierra Password Hint Leak
2017-10-06 09:42

Apple rushed out an emergency patch that fixed an bug in High Sierra that revealed APFS volume passwords via the password hint feature.

Equifax Ex-CEO Blames One Employee For Patch Failures
2017-10-05 11:18

Did Breach Result From a Perfect Storm, or Were Failures Business as Usual?Equifax ex-CEO Richard Smith asserts that a single employee's failure to heed a security alert led to them failing to...