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Microsoft Monthly Patch Tuesday Brings Dozen of Fixes

Desire Athow — Tue, 12 Aug 2008

Today's Tuesday and with it comes Microsoft's patch process with 12 fixes in the pipeline including seven which have been classified as critical, pertaining both to Office and Windows

Microsoft To Provide Additional Technical Details With Its Monthly Security Patch Process

Desire Athow — Thu, 07 Aug 2008

Citing the proliferation of online attacks and hacking evidences, the software giant, Microsoft has announced to release supplementary details of the vulnerabilities it fixes in its monthly security packs

Gold'en Rant : Windows Patches Disable Vista Restore Functionality

Steve Gold — Fri, 25 Jul 2008

I hate Tuesdays. Not because of anything work-related, but due to Microsoft's patches being released on that day

Dreaded Internet DNS Flaw Revealed Ahead Of Its Time

Desire Athow — Thu, 24 Jul 2008

The much debated DNS flaw that had IT giants working overtime to create its patch, has been accidentally revealed online, creating an issue for those whose servers are yet to utilise the patch

Gold'en Rant : Blame Microsoft For Patch Tuesday Debacle

Steve Gold — Fri, 18 Jul 2008

Microsoft has a lot to answer for with its Patch Tuesday updates last week. I've lost count of the number of people using AVG and Zone Alarm who've phoned me up to say their Internet access has gone West.

Mozilla Brings In Critical Security Patches For Firefox 2 and 3

Desire Athow — Thu, 17 Jul 2008

Mozilla scrambled to release Firefox 2.0.0.16 and Firefox 3.0.1 updates in a bid to decrease the possibility of a full-on attack by hackers against the open source browser users

Microsoft Releases July Edition Of Security Updates, Tackles Nine Vulnerabilities

Desire Athow — Thu, 10 Jul 2008

Microsoft has issued its monthly security patch for July, citing only four vulnerabilities as ‘important’, and none of them are listed as ‘critical’

Study Reveals That 40% Users Surf With Unpatched Web Browsers

Desire Athow — Wed, 02 Jul 2008

A collaborative study between IBM, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology and Google has revealed that approximately 41 percent of users are still not bothered about the browser security updates

Apple Releases Fourth Update For Mac OS X Leopard Platform

Desire Athow — Wed, 02 Jul 2008

Apple has set free the fourth update of its operating system Leopard- Mac OS X 10.5.4, in order to handle various issues including its problems with the Safari web browser, AirPort and iCal

Patching Is Not Effective As A First-Line Of Defence

Ben Chai — Sun, 29 Jun 2008

The problems of patching are enormous. Let’s say a vendor discovers a vulnerability in their software and releases a patch to prevent a potential exploit. So why don’t we all rush to patch our servers