• June 12, 2018

    Microsoft Releases 50 Updates For June Patch Tuesday, Microsoft has released a massive 50-update rollup that affects every version of Windows still in support. Included are fixes for the Windows OS, Internet Explorer, Microsoft Edge, the ChakraCore JavaScript engine, Microsoft...

  • June 4, 2018

    Remote Code Execution Vulnerability Disclosed Researchers at Telspace Systems have advised they have found a Zero Day exploit, but no fix is yet available. The release date has been estimated to be in the July 2018 Patch Tuesday, however we...

  • April 10, 2018

    Manage Your Vulnerabilities As we explored in our Total Meltdown article, some updates actually made Windows 7 less secure in the last round of Microsoft Patch Tuesday. Even worse, some caused significant performance issues on older hardware models. Many industry...

  • March 13, 2018

    Are you ready for IoT Patching? Tech firm Hanwha Techwin is racing to fix 13 critical security holes found in its popular line of SmartCam security cameras. The patch rollout is part of public disclosure of the vulnerabilities set for...

  • February 14, 2018

    Telegram Messenger Exploited Again Back in March 2017 we saw “Secure” WhatsApp and Telegram messenger applications being exploited by the user receiving a seemingly harmless image file which actually hosts malicious HTML code. This code directs them to a webpage...

  • December 12, 2017

    On the 12th day of December, Verismic sent to me … Top 10 Breaches of 2017! Throughout this year we have been breaking some of the worst IT security breaches of 2017, which have impacted millions of users worldwide.  We...

  • November 15, 2017

    Russia Caught On Top Towards the end of October, we started to see a flow of ransomware attacks from Russia with called Bad Rabbit. This epidemic has been targeting organizations and consumers, mostly in Russia but there have also been...

  • October 10, 2017

    Should Third-Party Really Be your Second Priority? If you have a patching strategy delivering Microsoft updates on a routine basis, you should extend that capacity to include third-party updates. Just a couple weeks ago, we discovered a massive compromise in...

  • September 12, 2017

    Money Well Spent Every dollar of fraud to merchants and firms in the retail and financial services sector is estimated to cost $2.66 on average, said a new fraud report. The LexisNexis Fraud Multiplier estimates the total amount of loss a business...

  • March 15, 2017

    The Eye of the Patch Storm Two months have passed since the beginning of the year where we saw one of the smallest releases of patch content for the past couple of years, to then having an entire baseline cancelled...