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Microsoft to Ship 7 Bulletins in March Patch Tuesday Release

Software giant Microsoft plans to ship seven bulletins in the March 2013 edition of Patch Tuesday. Four of the bulletins are receiving high-severity, critical ratings.Three of the four critically rated...

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Microsoft Expected to Patch Pwn2Own IE Vulnerabilities

Appropriately enough for the start of the baseball season, Microsoft is going to go 4-for-4 and release another set of critical Internet Explorer patches on Tuesday, the fourth consecutive month in...

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Pwn2Own IE Vulnerabilities Missing from Microsoft Patch Tuesday Updates

UPDATE - In an unexpected turn, Microsoft’s monthly Patch Tuesday security updates released today did not include patches for Internet Explorer vulnerabilities used during the Pwn2Own contest one month...

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Microsoft to Patch IE Flaw, 9 Others Next Week

Microsoft will ship 10 bulletins in the May edition of Patch Tuesday. The company considers just two of the patches critical, one of which supplements the currently available “Fix it” tool that...

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Adobe Shipping Critical Fixes for Reader and Acrobat in May Patch

Adobe is set to push security updates for various versions of its Acrobat  and Reader software packages, in tandem with Microsoft, in the May edition of Patch Tuesday. According to the Adobe Product...

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Microsoft Patches Department of Labor, Pwn2Own IE Vulnerabilities

Microsoft wasted no time today delivering a patch for the Internet Explorer 8 vulnerability being exploited in watering hole attacks carried out against the U.S. Department of Labor website and nine...

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Five Bulletins, One Critical in Microsoft’s June Patch

Microsoft announced today in an advanced patch Tuesday notification that it will ship just five bulletins in the June edition of patch Tuesday. Only one bulletin received the software giant’s most...

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Microsoft Patches IE Again; Ormandy Bug Waits

Microsoft took advantage today of its lightest batch of Patch Tuesday security updates this year to release an update to its certificate handling infrastructure. Meanwhile, administrators looking for a...

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‘Important’ Office 2003 Zero-Day Deserves Second Look

This week’s patch and security advisory for a vulnerability in Microsoft Office is the perfect example of why enterprise administrators need to take Microsoft’s criticality ratings as a suggestion and...

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July Patch Tuesday Updates Expected to Include Fix for Ormandy Kernel Bug

A critical Windows kernel vulnerability, publicly disclosed in May by a Google security engineer, will be patched tomorrow when Microsoft releases its July Patch Tuesday security updates. Tavis...

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Critical TrueType Font Parsing Vulnerabilities Addressed in Patch Tuesday...

Going all the way back to the Duqu attacks, font-parsing vulnerabilities and exploits have been symptomatic of some high-end espionage attacks targeting the Windows kernel. As a result, with hackers...

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Of TrueType Font Vulnerabilities and the Windows Kernel

Font-parsing vulnerabilities weren’t part of the security consciousness much until the discovery of Duqu at the end of 2011. The spy malware hooked into the Windows kernel through bugs in the TrueType...

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Microsoft Starts Countdown on Eliminating MD5

The clock is running on Windows administrators to sweep out MD5 implementations before a February 2014 patch from Microsoft slams the door shut on the broken, aged crypto algorithm. Microsoft released...

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Microsoft Pulls Back Critical Exchange Server 2013 Patch

Microsoft announced Wednesday afternoon that it has pulled MS13-061, one of the patches issued yesterday for vulnerabilities in Exchange Server 2013. Microsoft said the patch is causing issues with the...

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Critical Office, SharePoint Patches Await September Patch Tuesday Release

Today’s monthly advance notification of Microsoft’s upcoming security bulletin release on Tuesday includes a number of critical Office patches that have experts worried. Of particular concern are...

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Critical Office, SharePoint Patches Await September Patch Tuesday Release

Today’s monthly advance notification of Microsoft’s upcoming security bulletin release on Tuesday includes a number of critical Office patches that have experts worried. Of particular concern are...

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Critical SharePoint Bulletin Top Priority on Patch Tuesday

It’s no secret that putting SharePoint installations online and making them accessible without authentication is standard practice in many organizations. Those SharePoint administrators, however, may...

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New Monitoring, Security Features for Java 7

Oracle released on Tuesday the Java standard edition version 7 update 40. Java 7u40 includes fixes for a long list of bugs and a number of new features as well. The most notable security patch appears...

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Microsoft Readies Eight Patches, IE Zero Day Fix for October Patch Tuesday

Microsoft has announced that it plans to release eight patches next week as part of its October Patch Tuesday release, addressing flaws in its Windows, the .NET Framework, Office, Server, Silverlight...

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October Patch Tuesday Fixes Critical IE Bugs, 28 Vulnerabilities

As expected, Microsoft began shipping its latest batch of Patch Tuesday patches earlier this afternoon. However, while it was heavily presumed the update would fix at least one Internet Explorer zero...

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