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Adobe splats bucketful of bugs in Acrobat and Reader
If you thought that Adobe skipped this month’s Patch Tuesday because there were no immediate vulnerabilities to fix, you were wrong: a week later the company dropped …
Critical command execution vulnerability in iTerm2 patched, upgrade ASAP!
A critical vulnerability (CVE-2019-9535) in iTerm2, a macOS terminal emulator frequently used by developers and system administrators, could allow attackers to take control of …
October 2019 Patch Tuesday: A small batch of updates from Microsoft, none from Adobe
As predicted by Ivanti’s Chris Goettl, October 2019 Patch Tuesday came with a relatively small number of Microsoft updates and, curiously enough, with no security …
macOS Catalina: Security and privacy improvements
Apple has released macOS Catalina (v10.15), a new major release of its desktop operating system, which comes with many functional and security and privacy improvements. The …
Cisco closes high-impact vulnerabilities in its security offerings
Cisco has fixed 18 high-impact vulnerabilities affecting several of its security offerings and is advising administrators to test and implement the offered security updates as …
October 2019 Patch Tuesday forecast: Be sure to apply service stack updates
School is back in session across most of the world, and here in the United States most students look forward to a school holiday called ‘fall break.’ While we never have a …
Microsoft will continue providing Windows 7 security updates for SMBs
According to the latest Alert Logic’s research, most devices in small and midsize businesses (SMBs) run Windows versions that are expired or are about to expire soon. …
Guess what? You should patch Exim again!
Hot on the heels of a patch for a critical RCE Exim flaw comes another one that fixes a denial of service (DoS) condition (CVE-2019-16928) that could also be exploited by …
Microsoft drops emergency Internet Explorer fix for actively exploited zero-day
Microsoft has unexpectedly released out-of-band security updates to fix vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer and Microsoft Defender. The IE zero-day bug is deemed …
A bug made some Windows Defender antivirus scans fail
Microsoft has released a fix for a bug that made its Windows Defender Antivirus fail after a few seconds when users opted for a Quick or Full scan of the system. Users are …
September 2019 Patch Tuesday: Microsoft plugs two actively exploited zero-days
For the September 2019 Patch Tuesday, Microsoft delivered fixes for 80 CVE-numbered security issues (including to actively exploited zero-days), Adobe fixed flaws in Flash …
September 2019 Patch Tuesday forecast: Microsoft security update will be complete
Microsoft began an aggressive six-month campaign in March of this year to switch the digital signature on all operating system and product updates from using Secure Hash …
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