March 8, 2019
Critical Red Hat Updates A recent Red Hat security advisory has been issues for Red Hat Enterprise 6 and 7 relating to Java version 7 and 8. A CVSS score of 8.6 indicates this has a high probability of being...
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February 26, 2019
Adobe Patches Critical Flaw Twice in One Week Adobe has been tripping over its own patches this week. After its original fix failed, Adobe has issued yet another patch for a critical zero-day vulnerability in its Acrobat Reader. The previous...
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February 25, 2019
WinRAR Resolves 19-Year Old Vulnerability Check Point Research has uncovered a vulnerability in file extraction software WinRAR that has left users at risk for the past 19 years. The security flaw allows attackers to extract files of malicious software to access...
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February 20, 2019
SHA-2 Required to Patch Windows 7 Onward Due to weaknesses in the SHA-1 algorithm, and to align to industry standards, from July onward Microsoft will sign each Windows updates using the more secure SHA-2 algorithm only. If you are still...
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February 19, 2019
10 Ways To Protect Your Organization From Cyberattacks This article originally appeared on ypo.org.Many CEOs don’t want to think about cybersecurity. That’s why you hire a chief technology officer (CTO) or chief information security officer (CISO). But cybersecurity is now...
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February 13, 2019
Phobos Ransomware Creates Massive Security Exploit There is a new, powerful strain of ransomware making the rounds. While we don’t have all the details yet, the effects on victims is grim. This nasty piece of work is called Phobos and...
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February 13, 2019
February Patch Tuesday: Disable Windows Update Microsoft has released almost 80 security patches today covering IE, Edge, Exchange, Windows, .NET Framework and Office. There are only 20 rated Critical, 54 rated Important, and 3 are rated Moderate in severity. Four of the updates released CVE-2019-0636, CVE-2019-0686,...
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February 4, 2019
Linux Patches Security Concerns with Firefox Almost at urban legend status, Red Hat rarely rates updates as critical. Well, it’s not myth now, as an update is available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and 7. With a CVSS score...
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February 1, 2019
Update Your Browsers New releases for Chrome and Firefox address security concerns. Two of the most widely used internet browsers, Chrome and Firefox, have released updates for 65 security flaws. Of these security patches, 4 have a ‘critical’ severity rating...
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January 31, 2019
Millions of PCs Are Running Outdated Versions of Popular Software 55% of all programs worldwide are out-of-date It is 2019, and millions of computers still either have at least one outdated application installed or run outdated operating systems, making themselves...
