News
Microsoft Patch Tuesday and patch management
- December 08, 2009
08 Dec'09
Microsoft gives Internet Explorer a major security overhaul
The final regular Microsoft update of 2009 repairs five critical vulnerabilities in IE and blocks public exploit code, which surfaced in November.
- August 20, 2009
20 Aug'09
Adobe updates ColdFusion, JRun, Flex
Application vendor focuses on vulnerabilities in its Web application development tools.
- August 13, 2009
13 Aug'09
Patch management study shows IT taking significant risks
IT pros need to take patch management processes seriously and more dilligently understand the plethora of applications being used by end users.
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- August 13, 2009
13 Aug'09
Trusteer CEO criticizes Adobe, touts better patch deployments
Despite critical Flash and Adobe Reader updates July 30, only a fraction of Adobe users have installed them, Trusteer says. Trusteer's CEO urges better patching mechanisms.
- July 27, 2009
27 Jul'09
Microsoft to issue security report card, new tool at Black Hat
In addition to updating the public on its new security programs, the software giant is issuing a guide outlining its patching process and how to assess vulnerability data.
- July 09, 2009
09 Jul'09
Adobe patches ColdFusion vulnerability blocking website attack
Users of ColdFusion 8 can apply a patch which blocks ongoing attacks compromising websites built with the application development platform.
- July 09, 2009
09 Jul'09
Microsoft to address DirectShow, ActiveX zero-day flaws
The software giant said it would issue six updates including three critical, repairing two flaws being actively targeted in the wild.
- June 25, 2009
25 Jun'09
Adobe fixes critical Shockwave Flash Player flaw
Adobe released an update to its Shockwave Flash Player to repair a critical flaw that could allow an attacker to take complete control of a system.
- June 12, 2009
12 Jun'09
Mozilla patches 11 Firefox security flaws, JavaScript errors
Mozilla patched 11 flaws including six critical vulnerabilities that could be exploited by an attacker to gain access to system files.
- June 09, 2009
09 Jun'09
Microsoft patches WebDAV security vulnerability in bevy of updates
Zero-day flaws in Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) Web server and Internet Explorer were among 31 vulnerabilities repaired Tuesday.
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- June 09, 2009
09 Jun'09
Adobe issues first quarterly patch release fixing 13 flaws
Adobe's first quarterly security patch release includes fixes for critical vulnerabilities in Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat.
- June 04, 2009
04 Jun'09
Microsoft plans 10 security updates, fixing IE, Word, Excel vulnerabilities
The software giant plans to issue six critical bulletins repairing flaws in Internet Explorer, Word, Excel and Office.
- May 21, 2009
21 May'09
Adobe shifts to Microsoft patching process, incident response plan
Adobe Systems Inc. said it would bolster its patch management strategy, issuing quarterly updates for its adobe Reader and Acrobat PDF software.
- May 12, 2009
12 May'09
Microsoft updates Office to address serious PowerPoint vulnerabilities
One of the PowerPoint zero-day flaws was being actively targeted by attackers.
- May 07, 2009
07 May'09
Microsoft to patch critical PowerPoint zero-day flaw
Attackers are actively targeting a remote code execution vulnerability in PowerPoint to take complete control of an affected system.