September 24, 2019
Microsoft Releases Out-of-Band Security Updates Microsoft Urges Users to Install Emergency Patches Microsoft released an emergency set of cumulative updates for Windows 10 devices running the May 2019 update (Windows 10 version 1903) and earlier. The out-of-band security updates address...
August 21, 2019
August Third-Party Patches & Security Updates Which third-party patches should you prioritize? VideoLAN has released an update this week to resolve two high-risk vulnerabilities in the VLC media player application. The discovered vulnerabilities allow an attacker to manipulate the .MKV...
July 11, 2019
July Third-Party Security Updates Latest Third-Party Updates This month there are several notable third-party updates that have been released. The vendors include Adobe, Foxit, GlavSoft LLC., Microsoft (Skype), and Mozilla. How are you deploying third-party security updates? It’s time to...
July 9, 2019
July Patch Tuesday: Stop Zero-Day Exploits Patch Tuesday Release Microsoft have released 78 patches today covering IE, Edge, ChakraCore, Windows and Office.p There are 15 rated Critical and 62 Important with only 1 rated Moderate. Urgent: Public and Exploited There are a total of 8 vulnerabilities in this...
June 18, 2019
Homeland Security Issues Critical BlueKeep Warning The United States Department of Homeland Security's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has declared an official warning to patch the wormable BlueKeep flaw. After confirming the exploit can be used to remotely execute...
June 17, 2019
Blue Screen of Death Occurring with Feature Updates This isn’t the first we’ve heard of Windows 10 upgrades being affected by antivirus or encryption software. But, in fact, Microsoft has always recommended to disable existing security software before upgrading to...
February 27, 2019
Why Realtime Security is Crucial This article originally appeared on TechWormCyberattacks are rapidly growing as a global threat. With more complex and powerful attacks, actors are in a control of massive amounts of resources, including username and password data dumps...
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...
December 19, 2018
Microsoft Releases Patch to Address Active Exploit After learning about it from Google, Microsoft has moved to fix CVE-2018-8653. This flaw in Internet Explorer is being actively exploited in the wild. According to the Microsoft release, this remote code execution...
December 11, 2018
Do you have a patching strategy? It should include turning off Automatic Windows update. Patch Tuesday is here. To avoid the usual splitting headache, we recommend disabling automatic updates for Windows and implementing a reliable patch strategy. Windows 10 updates...
