Security News

Patch or ditch Adobe Flash: Exploit on sale, booby-trapped Office docs spotted in the wild
2018-04-09 19:30

ThreadKit leverages flaw fixed in February In case you needed another reason not to open Adobe Flash or Microsoft Office files from untrusted sources: ThreadKit, an app for building documents that...

April Patch Tuesday forecast: Expect updates for Adobe Flash, others
2018-04-09 11:30

Springtime is here! Although up here in Minnesota you wouldn’t believe it as we received snowfalls that rivaled anything in the past 34 years! As spring arrives you think of all the things you...

Remote Execution Flaw Threatens Apps Built Using Spring Framework — Patch Now
2018-04-06 09:05

Security researchers have discovered three vulnerabilities in the Spring Development Framework, one of which is a critical remote code execution flaw that could allow remote attackers to execute...

Intel Will Not Patch Spectre in Some CPUs
2018-04-04 11:08

Intel has informed customers that some of the processors affected by the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities will not receive microcode updates due to issues related to implementation and other...

Running Drupal? You need to patch, patch, patch right now!
2018-04-01 00:00

Website building biz warns exploit may come in hours Anyone running a website built with Drupal should stop whatever they are doing right now and install critical security patches.…

Microsoft patches patch for Meltdown bug patch: Windows 7, Server 2008 rushed an emergency fix
2018-04-01 00:00

If at first you don't succeed, you're Redmond Microsoft today issued an emergency security update to correct a security update it issued earlier this month to correct a security update it issued...

Mad March Meltdown! Microsoft's patch for a patch for a patch may need another patch
2018-04-01 00:00

If at first, er, second, ah, third, no, fourth, you fail, sadly, you're probably Redmond Updated Days after Microsoft released its third attempt at a fix for the Meltdown security vulnerability in...

Microsoft Fixes Bad Patch That Left Windows 7, Server 2008 Open to Attack
2018-03-30 18:51

Microsoft released an out-of-band security update that corrected a faulty patch that left Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 open to attack.

Drupal Issues Highly Critical Patch: Over 1M Sites Vulnerable
2018-03-29 19:58

Drupal developers are urged to patch a bug that allows attackers to take over a site simply by visiting it.

Microsoft's Meltdown Patch Made Windows 7 PCs More Insecure
2018-03-29 15:03

Meltdown CPU vulnerability was bad, and Microsoft somehow made the flaw even worse on its Windows 7, allowing any unprivileged, user-level application to read content from and even write data to...