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...
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...
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....
WSUS: The outdated way of staying updated?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...
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...
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...
BlueKeep ‘wormable’ vulnerability – the next WannaCry? Patches released for Windows Remote Desktop Protocol for Windows 7, XP, and 2003
Another month, another Patch Tuesday update from Microsoft. But this Patch Tuesday is more serious than most, because Microsoft has patched a highly critical vulnerability....
A year of Meltdown and Spectre: Questions that still remain
It was the summer of 2017 when two of the most devastating ransomware variants the world has seen—WannaCry and NotPetya—broke loose, infecting more than 300,000 machines and inflicting losses totaling more than $4 billion. By early 2018, many institutions...
Preventing the SQLite Magellan vulnerability from damaging your applications
Emerging vulnerabilities and continuous patching have been at odds with each other ever since the information age began. Flaws are often simple enough that a patch can...