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The United States Postal Service has finally patched a known critical vulnerability that left 60 million user’s data exposed for over a year. As horrifying as the news is, the USPS’s actions shouldn’t come as a surprise: a recent report states...

Microsoft Pulls Several Crash Causing Updates The updates KB2863821 and KB4461522 for Office 2010 were pulled from November's Patch Tuesday because they were causing crashes for some users. Is this going to become a regular event? Microsoft had to pause...

Syxsense Realtime Use Case: Fortnite While bored at work, an employee manages to install Fornite on their device. However, they notice lags and the game running slow. Defender is causing issues and interrupting their gaming. What do they do? Disable...

An unfortunate fact for IT departments is that they will, at some point, face a malware crisis. Here's how addressing malware normally plays out. At some point after the infection occurs, usually much later, it gets noticed. Whether by pure...

Patch Tuesday Release: The Latest News Microsoft has released 62 security patches today covering Internet Explorer (IE), Edge, ChakraCore, Hyper-V, Exchange, Windows components, .NET Core, SQL Server, and Microsoft Office.  12 of the 62 are listed as Critical. CVE-2018-8589 with...

Samsung Unlocks Bitlocker Microsoft, Samsung, and US-Cert have all issued advisories regarding a newly discovered vulnerability. A grouping of some of the most widely used SSDs contain a vulnerability that would allow access to encrypted data without the encryption key....

Critical Updates for Apple and More On the same day that Apple announced their new set of products, they released a massive group of updates. These patches address critical vulnerabilities throughout their operating systems and software offerings. The OS vulnerabilities,...

An Attacker Could Take Over Impacted Systems With 3 Commands or Less A security researcher has discovered a highly critical flaw in X.Org Server package that impacts OpenBSD and most Linux distributions, including Debian, Ubuntu, CentOS, Red Hat, and Fedora....

FreeRTOS Has 13 Major Security Flaws Research performed by Zimperium’s zLabs team uncovered 13 vulnerabilities that could be manipulated to leak information, crash devices, and even take control with remote code execution. “During our research, we discovered multiple vulnerabilities within...

Over 300 Vulnerabilities: 49 Rated as Critical Oracle has just dropped its October 2018 update and it is a big one! Over 300 security flaws are addressed in this massive release. 49 of those flaws carry a critical CVSS rating...