Were you among those sysadmins who devotedly installed all the updates from this Patch Tuesday? Well, buckle up! You may have to undo a few.
February 11, 2020 was one of the biggest Patch Tuesday update rollouts, with fixes for …
Microsoft pulls back faulty updates from February’s Patch Tuesday
Microsoft’s February Patch Tuesday comes with fixes for 99 vulnerabilities
This Patch Tuesday, a total of 99 vulnerabilities have been addressed, making the February 2020 Patch Tuesday the biggest yet. As an early Valentine’s gift, Microsoft has provisioned administrators with numerous security and non-security updates to apply to their endpoints. …
Unpatched zero-day vulnerability in Internet Explorer exploited in the wild
Barely a week after Patch Tuesday, internet security company Qihoo 360 has discovered yet another vulnerability in Internet Explorer (IE), this time due to a remote code execution vulnerability in the jscript.dll scripting engine. The vulnerability, identified as CVE-2020-0674, is …
50 vulnerabilities patched in January 2020 Patch Tuesday
The first Patch Tuesday of the decade has arrived with a bang. There’s been a lot of buzz regarding essential updates that were set to be released this January, and sure enough, the vendors have delivered! We’ve consolidated all the …
Phishing hoax following the Windows 10 feature pack roll out
Hackers using trending events to manipulate end-users into falling for cyberattacks is nothing new. So when Windows rolled-out its Vanadium 1909 feature pack update, it was only a matter of time before this was leveraged by cybercriminals to launch phishing …
Patch Manager Plus Cloud goes Mac friendly !
From operating within a garage to becoming the world’s most valuable brand with a net worth of over $206 billion, Apple has established itself in consumer electronics. With the birth of the Macintosh OS, or the MacOS as it is …
WSUS: The outdated way of staying updated?
WSUS (Windows Server Update Service) is an add-on provided by Microsoft for patching Windows applications. Along with being free, the basic functionalities that WSUS provides makes it an easy choice for major SMBs. However, in reality, WSUS falls short in …
Microsoft Patch Tuesday July 2019: Six publicly disclosed vulnerabilities, two zero-day flaws
The much awaited Microsoft Patch Tuesday updates for July 2019 are here. If you’re a sysadmin, you probably know what this means for you: a week full of testing and deploying updates and troubleshooting patch failures, and then another week …
Intel processors affected by ZombieLoad, a new side-channel attack
Remember Meltdown and Spectre from last year? Well here comes ZombieLoad, a new side-channel vulnerability that targets the speculative execution portion of several Intel CPUs the same way Spectre does. Microsoft, Apple, and Google have all released temporary patches to …