Security News

Viral phishing scams and vulnerabilities: What to watch out for this Patch Tuesday (Help Net Security)
2017-05-08 15:30

I am about to head to Las Vegas for Ivanti’s Interchange 2017 at The Mirage hotel and feeling a bit in a gambling mood, so I am going to take a shot at this month’s forecast and see if luck is on...

Compared to last month’s Patch Tuesday, April will be a light drizzle (Help Net Security)
2017-04-10 12:30

March saw a sizable release from Microsoft after a missed Patch Tuesday. Any way about it, April will be a lighter month than March. Windows 10 1703 has officially released to MSDN. Windows 10...

March Patch Tuesday closes record number of vulnerabilities (Help Net Security)
2017-03-15 15:27

With no February Patch Tuesday, it was to be expected that Microsoft would fix a huge number of security issues in March. They didn’t disappoint: 139 unique CVEs have been resolved. As announced...

Patch Tuesday Returns; Microsoft Quiet on Postponement (Threatpost)
2017-03-14 19:26

Microsoft released 18 security bulletins, eight rated critical. The company also patched publicly disclosed vulnerabilities that surfaced since last month’s postponement of Patch Tuesday.

By the end of March no one will remember that Microsoft missed a Patch Tuesday (Help Net Security)
2017-03-13 13:30

Like the weather in Minnesota, the March Patch Forecast is unpredictable at best. Be prepared for turbulent times interspersed with moments of calm. Will March Patch Tuesday go off without a...

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...