15 hours ago by Simon Price

Today is patch Tuesday for February 2010, and it marks a fairly busy patch cycle for Microsoft, who released thirteen updates today. In late January, there was an out-of-band release for two critical patches, in response to the high profile issue around the Internet Explorer Aurora exploit. This mak ...

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18 hours ago by Ryan Naraine

Microsoft today released 13 security bulletins with fixes for 26 vulnerabilities affecting Windows and Office users and warned customers to pay special attention to a slew of flaws that can be trivially exploited by malware miscreants. Shorten URL: http://threatpost.com/en_us/3yu. Click to copy to c ...

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21 hours ago by Ryan Naraine

Adobe has acknowledged that an internal screw-up caused a potentially dangerous Flash Player flaw to remain unpatched for more than 16 months after it was first reported by an external security researcher. "It slipped through the cracks," said Emmy Huang, a product manager for Flash Player. Adobe's ...

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22 hours ago by Ryan Naraine

To entice security researchers to look for holes in the Chrome browser, Google has announced it will pay $500 for dangerous security flaws found in the code. But several experts say that's not enough money to motivate skilled vulnerability researchers. Read the full story [CNet] Shorten URL: http:// ...

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23 hours ago by Donald Sears

Novell is reporting a critical security vulnerability in NetStorage which can be exploited by a remote attacker to compromise a system. The vendor has not provided any details of the vulnerability, but has stated that exploiting the vulnerability to inject and execute code does not require authentic ...

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4 days ago by Kerry Adorno

SC Magazine has just published its review of ZENworks Patch Management. Backed by Novell’s strong support organization and ZENworks Patch Management’s centralized Web-based administration and ability to scale for any size environment, the review notes, “… we found that Novell’s solution represents a ...

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4 days ago by Ryan Naraine

Oracle has released an out-of-band patch to fix a gaping security hole in the Oracle WebLogic Node Manager and, warning that an attacker could launch remote attacks over a network without the need for a username and password. Shorten URL: http://threatpost.com/en_us/3Ed. Click to copy to clipboard o ...

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4 days ago by Christopher Brook

Dennis Fisher and Ryan Naraine discuss the latest iPhone attack, the upcoming Patch Tuesday and the never-ending fallout from the Google attack. You are missing some Flash content that should appear here! Perhaps your browser cannot display it, or maybe it did not initialize correctly. Shorten URL: ...

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4 days ago by Donald Sears

Michael Gough, an information security specialist and president of the Austin, Texas, chapter of ISSA, owner of the web site skypetips.com gave CSO his thoughts on Skype's benefits and security challenges in the business environment. Read the full article. [CSO] Shorten URL: http://threatpost.com/en ...

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5 days ago by Ryan Naraine

Microsoft's February batch of security patches will be a biggie -- 13 bulletins with fixes for a whopping 26 vulnerabilities. According to an advance notice from the Redmond, Wash. software vendor, five of the 13 bulletins will be rated "critical" because of the risk of remove code execution attacks ...

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