Security News

Week in review: Self-healing malware, Patch Tuesday postponed, RSA Conference 2017 (Help Net Security)
2017-02-20 00:38

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news and articles: RSA Conference 2017 coverage Check out what you missed at the infosec event of the year. Banks around the world...

Microsoft postpones Patch Tuesday (Help Net Security)
2017-02-15 13:31

Patch Tuesday is the day when most system administrators sit down and perform critical patching of the systems under their control – or at least begin testing the updates and patches released by...

Will February’s Patch Tuesday fix a known zero-day? (Help Net Security)
2017-02-10 13:00

Coming into Patch Tuesday we have a known zero day on the Microsoft side, and we’ve seen example code for an SMB exploit that could lead to DoS and BYOD of a system. US CERT recommends blocking...

Exploit for Windows DoS zero-day published, patch out on Tuesday? (Help Net Security)
2017-02-03 20:12

A zero-day bug affecting Windows 10, 8.1, Windows Server 2012 and 2016 can be exploited to crash a vulnerable system and possibly even to compromise it. The bug It is a memory corruption bug in...

Microsoft Waits for Patch Tuesday to Fix SMB Zero Day (Threatpost)
2017-02-03 13:36

Microsoft said a Windows SMB zero day, which has a public proof-of-concept exploit available, is low risk and won’t be patched until an upcoming Patch Tuesday.