security update

The latest Java Development Kit update (JDK 7u40) includes a number of bug fixes, new security features and changes, and among them is one that has been long overdue: a …

September’s Patch Tuesday is live! The 14 bulletins predicted have been cut to 13, with the .NET patch landing on the cutting room floor. A patch getting pulled after …

September’s edition of Microsoft’s patch Tuesday advance notification has emerged in all its glory. A hefty 14 bulletins are in the offing, split equally between …

Users who run their sites own sites and use the Joomla CMS but haven’t updated it in a while should do so immediately if they don’t want to see their sites …

There’s a remotely exploitable, publicly disclosed, critical remote code execution vulnerability in Microsoft Exchange (MS13-061)! But wait, is it really remotely …

The August 2013 Patch Tuesday advance notification includes a slightly higher volume of fixes than last month, but only 3 of 8 are critical, which is down from July’s 6 …

High-Tech Bridge Security Research Lab released its statistics on web application security for the first half of 2013. The statistics is based on HTB Security Advisories that …

Relatively quiet Critical Patch Update (CPU) from Oracle this quarter. Relative is of course subjective to Oracle, since this gigantic pile of unrelated code fixes includes 89 …

This month’s Patch Tuesday has been a prolific one, and patches for a total of 34 vulnerabilities – six of which critical – have been made available for …

Mozilla released Firefox 22, which includes 14 security updates: four are critical, six high, three moderate and one low. Fixed in this version: MFSA 2013-62 Inaccessible …

Oracle released 40 new Java security fixes. 37 of the vulnerabilities may be remotely exploitable without authentication. This was described as the possibility of being …

For Patch Tuesday this month, we are receiving critical updates from both Microsoft and Adobe. Microsoft has five bulletins, bringing the six-month total up to 51 bulletins, …