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...

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.

Microsoft Issues Record Low Number of Patch Tuesday Bulletins (Threatpost)
2017-01-10 20:52

Microsoft patched vulnerabilities that were tied to a variety of its products including Office 2016, its Edge browser and its Local Security Authority Subsystem Service (LSASS).

Post-pumpkin Patch Tuesday: What’s in store for November (Help Net Security)
2016-11-03 15:35

There has been a lot of activity since October’s Patch Tuesday. During that short period of time, Oracle released its quarterly CPU, including an update for Java JRE; Adobe resolved a zero-day in...

Week in review: MySQL 0-day, Stingrays, and the end of Patch Tuesday (Help Net Security)
2016-09-18 13:00

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news and articles: Five ways to respond to the ransomware threat While organizations wrestle with the ever-pressing issue of whether to...