vulnerabilities tuesday
First critical Windows 7 patches released
News The Windows 7 update is part of a record Patch Tuesday, containing 13 bulletins for 34 vulnerabilities. Microsoft has released the first critical update for Windows 7 on Patch Tuesday,... [14 Oct 2009]
Five critical Windows updates arrive on Microsoft's Patch Tuesday
News The five bulletins address eight vulnerabilities. According to Symantec Security Response research manager Ben Greenbaum, the two vulnerabilities most likely to be used by attackers involve the way... [09 Sep 2009]
Windows 7: Unaffected by latest zero-day flaw
News Tuesday was Microsoft's monthly release for patches, which included five critical Windows updates addressing eight vulnerabilities. We are not aware of attacks that try to use the reported... [09 Sep 2009]
Google plugs two critical Chrome vulnerabilities
News Google has fixed two high-severity vulnerabilities in the stable version of its Chrome browser that could have let an attacker remotely take over a person's computer. Google won't release details of the... [26 Aug 2009]
Microsoft Office, Windows get critical flaw fixes in latest patch batch
News The nine patches actually relate to 19 separate vulnerabilities in Windows, the .Net Framework, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Visual Studio, Microsoft ISA Server, Microsoft BizTalk Server, and Remote Desktop Client for Mac. [12 Aug 2009]
Microsoft's Patch Tuesday to fix five critical holes
News Four additional vulnerabilities, rated "important", affect Windows and Windows .NET Framework and could allow an attacker to remotely execute code, launch a denial-of-service attack or elevate system privileges, the... [07 Aug 2009]
Microsoft releases emergency patch to plug critical ActiveX hole
News It's an industry-wide problem when [vulnerabilities] do happen. A library can get used in a lot of places, and vulnerabilities in libraries are challenging," Reavey said. The IE patch also resolves three... [29 Jul 2009]
Microsoft: Security patches are beating malware in race to users
News Meanwhile, the Microsoft Security Response Center said that of the 50 security bulletins it published from October 2008 to June 2009, patches were released in response to 138 vulnerabilities. In estimating how... [28 Jul 2009]
Microsoft to patch critical IE hole
News The vulnerabilities affect Windows 2000, Windows XP, Vista, Windows Server 2003 and 2008, Internet Explorer 6, 7 and 8, Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003, Visual Studio 2005 and 2008 and Visual C++ 2005 and 2008,... [27 Jul 2009]
Mozilla releases five fixes to extinguish Firefox 3 critical bugs
News Mozilla on Tuesday released Firefox 3.0.12, an update to the open-source browser that fixes five critical security vulnerabilities and fixes a handful of other bugs. Mozilla said on its developer blog:... [22 Jul 2009]
Oracle plugs 33 holes that affect hundreds of products
News In its security advisory, published alongside the patches on Tuesday, the software maker gave two of the vulnerabilities its highest possible severity rating. Some of the vulnerabilities... [16 Jul 2009]
Microsoft DirectX gets fix in Patch Tuesday
News The critical vulnerabilities affecting various Windows versions all could allow an attacker to run code remotely, while one of the non-critical holes involving Virtual PC and Virtual Server would allow remote code... [10 Jul 2009]
Microsoft's Patch Tuesday unleashes record number of updates
News The June security Patch Tuesday bulletin resolves eight vulnerabilities in IE, the more severe of which could allow remote code execution if a user views a specially crafted web page. The bulletin... [10 Jun 2009]
Windows, IE, Word, Office, and Excel all getting patched
News Meanwhile, the six critical vulnerabilities in Microsoft software could allow an attacker to remotely execute code on a machine, according to the Microsoft security bulletin issued on Thursday. Three important... [05 Jun 2009]
Leopard purrs as Apple updates security
News The update patches three separate vulnerabilities in Apple Type Services, QuickDraw Manager, and WebKit - all of which could allow for arbitrary code execution. Apple on Tuesday released OS X 10.5.7, an... [13 May 2009]
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