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Microsoft Kicks Off Spring with Nine Security Bulletins
The advanced notification results are in, and it’s looking good for Patch Day. Next Tuesday, Microsoft will release nine security bulletins, two of which the Redmond-based software company rates as...
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Remote Desktop and IE Updates Top April’s Patch Day List
Unless you’re new to IT, you’re probably aware that today—the second Tuesday of the month—is Microsoft Patch Day. As expected, Microsoft released nine security bulletins today, fixing 13...
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“Use After Free” Flaws: A New Theme for IE Vulnerability
Severity: High Summary: These vulnerabilities affect: Most current versions of Internet Explorer (IE) How an attacker exploits them: By enticing one of your users to visit a malicious web page Impact:...
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Microsoft Black Tuesday: Fix for IE8 Zero Day and More
Calling all Microsoft administrators. It’s time to spin up your virtual test machines and download, test, and deploy May’s batch of Microsoft security updates. This month’s theme is IE updates; with a...
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Two Critical IE Bulletins Fix Zero Day Vulnerability and More
Severity: High Summary: These vulnerabilities affect: Internet Explorer (IE) versions 6 – 10 How an attacker exploits them: Typically, by enticing one of your users to visit a web page with malicious...
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Next Week’s Patch Tuesday Focuses on IE
I’m sure you’re used to the Microsoft Patch drill by now, so let’s jump right in… According to their advanced notification post, Microsoft plans to release five security bulletins next Tuesday, which...
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Microsoft Fixes 19 Remote Code Execution Flaws in IE
Severity: High Summary: These vulnerabilities affect: Most current versions of Internet Explorer (IE) How an attacker exploits them: By enticing one of your users to visit a web page containing...
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Microsoft Black Tuesday: Patch Windows Kernel-mode Driver and .NET First
Microsoft’s July Patch Day is live and ready for download, so go grab those updates. I recommend you work on the Windows Kernel-mode driver and .NET one’s first. According to their summary post,...
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Cumulative IE Update Corrects a Pile of Memory Corruption Flaws
Severity: High Summary: These vulnerabilities affect: All current versions of Internet Explorer (IE) How an attacker exploits them: By enticing one of your users to visit a web page containing...
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Microsoft Patch Tuesday: Critical Fixes for Exchange, IE, and Windows
It’s that time again… Microsoft Patch Day. Sometimes following Microsoft’s regular patch cycle can feel a lot like the movie, Groundhog Day. Yet—also like the movie—it’s well worth repeating regularly...
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Latest IE Patch Fixes More Potential Drive-by Download Flaws
Severity: High Summary: These vulnerabilities affect: All current versions of Internet Explorer (IE) How an attacker exploits them: By enticing one of your users to visit a web page containing...
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Microsoft Black Tuesday: The Largest Patch Day of 2013 (So Far)
Today’s Patch Day is the largest so far for 2013, with Microsoft releasing 13 security bulletins. While it doesn’t break any records (that Patch Day was probably the 17 bulletin one in April 2011),...
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IE Update Fixes Ten Critical Memory Corruption Flaws
Severity: High Summary: These vulnerabilities affect: All current versions of Internet Explorer (IE) How an attacker exploits them: By enticing one of your users to visit a web page containing...
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Install IE FixIT to Avoid Zero Day Attack
Summary: This vulnerability affects: Probably all current versions of Internet Explorer (IE), but the targeted exploit only affects IE 8 and 9 How an attacker exploits it: By enticing one of your users...
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Adobe Data Breach – WSWiR Episode 79
IE Exploit, Silk Road Ruined, and NSA Tor Hacks Better late than never. This week’s regular Friday InfoSec video includes the latest on the Internet Explorer (IE) vulnerability, a warning to Adobe...
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Microsoft Black Tuesday: Install the IE Update First
If you follow the blog, you’re surely aware that today’s Microsoft Patch Day; and it’s an especially important one. Though it doesn’t set any records, Microsoft has released an update to fix a fairly...
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IE Update Fixes Two Zero Day Vulnerabilities
Severity: High Summary: These vulnerabilities affect: All current versions of Internet Explorer (IE) How an attacker exploits them: By enticing one of your users to visit a web page containing...
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Gartner IT Expo – WSWiR Episode 80
Two IE Zero Days, iOS vs. Android, and DNS Hijacking Today’s weekly InfoSec video comes to you on the road, from Gartner’s IT Expo Symposium. WatchGuard had a busy week here in Orlando. I spoke on Data...
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Microsoft Black Tuesday: Updates Correct One of Two Zero day
Today’s the second Tuesday of the month, which means it’s Microsoft (and Adobe) Patch Day. One of Microsoft updates fixes a zero day vulnerability, so we recommend you install at least that one as...
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Latest IE Update Remedies Ten More Vulnerabilities
Summary: This vulnerability affects: All current versions of Internet Explorer, running on all current versions of Windows (except for IE 11 on Windows 7) How an attacker exploits it: Usually, by...
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