Tag: Update

February 29, 2016

Microsoft has enhanced the holistic agile security platform it touted last November with integrated insights obtained from the company’s intelligent security graph and tighter collaboration with industry partners. The changes highlight Microsoft’s current approach to enterprise security, which focuses on […]

February 25, 2016

A bipartisan pair of lawmakers on Wednesday predicted broad support and swift passage of upcoming legislation to establish a national commission exploring how police can get at encrypted data without endangering Americans’ privacy. The measure, from House Homeland Security Committee […]

February 16, 2016

Mozilla released updates for the standard and ESR versions of Firefox last week to address vulnerabilities classified as having “critical” impact. Earlier this month, researchers at Cisco’s Talos team reported finding several vulnerabilities in the Libgraphite library, used for font […]

February 11, 2016

Microsoft’s February 2016 Patch Tuesday updates include a total of 13 bulletins designed to address dozens of vulnerabilities in the company’s products. It’s worth pointing out that one of the bulletins, MS16-022, fixes the 22 Flash Player flaws resolved by […]

February 2, 2016

The government may have used compromised software for up to three years, exposing national security secrets to foreign spies, according to lawmakers and security experts. Observers increasingly believe the software defect derived from an encryption “backdoor” created by the National […]

December 15, 2015

The open-source project behind the widely used Joomla content management system has issued a patch for a vulnerability that is now being widely used by hackers. Sucuri, a company that specializes in securing websites, wrote on Monday that attackers have […]

December 8, 2015

Google’s December security update for Android has been pushed out to Nexus devices on Monday, and it contains fixes for 19 vulnerabilities, four of which are deemed “critical”. Among these is an elevation of privilege vulnerability (CVE-2015-6619) in the system […]

November 24, 2015

Wireshark, the most popular network protocol analyzer, has reached version 2.0. It features a completely new user interface which should provide a smoother, faster user experience. Here’s an in-depth video introduction to Wireshark 2.0 The libwireshark API has undergone some […]

September 30, 2015

On Wednesday, #windows users – both home and #enterprise – started sharing details on a strange #update delivered by Microsoft. The update itself used a string of random characters in the description, along with resource URLs using a similar format […]

September 23, 2015

The number of people whose #fingerprints have been stolen as a result of the high-profile hack into the computer systems of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management earlier this year is now 5.6 million. The agency revised its original estimate […]

September 8, 2015

#adobe released a #new version of its #shockwave player that patches two critical #vulnerabilities that could be remotely exploited. Adobe said that it is not aware of public exploits for either security flaw. The vulnerability affects Shockwave for #windows, versions […]

March 12, 2015

#adobe has released an #update for its #flash player software that fixes at least 11 separate, critical #security vulnerabilities in the program. If you have Flash installed, please take a moment to ensure your systems are updated. Not sure whether […]