Ten Bulletins This May Patch Tuesday; But Don’t Get Excited
May 14th, 2013
While 10 patches covering 33 vulnerabilities may seem like a high number, it isn’t all bad news for IT professionals this May Patch Tuesday. Only two of the 10 patches released today are critical and both impact Microsoft Windows and Internet Explorer. The two critical-rated patches address the IE 8 zero-day that made news after attacking a [...]
Patch Tuesday Not Too Taxing For IT This Month, Despite Heavy Patch Count
April 9th, 2013
It’s another heavy month of patches this month from Microsoft. There are 9 bulletins, with 2 critical and 7 important. While 9 may seem like a lot, there are a few pieces of good news this month. First, there are only 2 critical bulletins and most of the patches are rated important. Second, most of [...]
No Luck o’ the Irish for IT this St. Patty’s Day
March 12th, 2013
IT admins can’t seem to catch a break this year. First, the never ending stream of Java issues that has kept folks on their toes since January. Now they’ve got another busy month of patches ahead of them, with 7 total patches from Microsoft, 4 of which are critical. However, once again the issues outside of Microsoft [...]
Microsoft Serves Up a Turkey for Thanksgiving this Patch Tuesday
November 13th, 2012
IT administrators may find they don’t have much to be thankful for this Thanksgiving with a disruptive Patch Tuesday headed their way. With 6 Microsoft bulletins, 4 of which are critical and some restarts required, along with a host of other issues, IT can expect a disruptive Patch Tuesday this month. Right off the top, [...]
Sensational Headlines or Real Threats?
October 23rd, 2012
Yesterday, I was joined by a great group of IT security industry pros for a discussion on the recent, highly-sophisticated cyber attacks that continue to make headlines by hitting major U.S. banks and global companies like Saudi Aramco, Adobe and others. Dialing up the rhetoric on these spectacular headlines, the Pentagon jumped in last week [...]
Growing Threat From Vendors’ Friendly Fire
October 15th, 2012
After we learned that Flame exploited Microsoft’s Auto Update infrastructure, I pointed out that if attackers were able to compromise Microsoft, a leader in patch management, it couldn’t be long before bad guys exploited the update infrastructures of other vendors who are far behind Microsoft – like Adobe… And that’s exactly what happened a couple [...]
Another Light Patch Tuesday from Microsoft this October
October 9th, 2012
The light September Patch Tuesday led many to say October would be a horrific Patch Tuesday for IT admins. With seven bulletins and only one critical, those naysayers may want to consider retracting those statements. Microsoft is finally starting to see the fruit of its secure coding initiatives. If you go back to last year [...]
September Podcast: State of Security Awards
October 4th, 2012
Hackers and lawmakers alike kept the IT Security industry busy in September. There is still a lot of talk – and unfortunately little action – on cybersecurity legislation around the world. With U.S. elections just over a month away now, we can anticipate the rhetoric to only increase. Form the good, the bad, and the [...]
By: Paul Zimski - IT Security Expert
Adobe Hack Translation
October 2nd, 2012
Late last week, we received notice hackers, presumably a well-equipped group using an advanced campaign, somehow made their way laterally onto an Adobe build server where company developers package up a final executable for consumers. With access to the build server, attackers were able to sign their own hacking tools with legitimate Adobe certificates. In [...]
A Bit of May Madness from Microsoft for May 2012 Patch Tuesday
May 8th, 2012
The disruptive restarts and the wide range of platforms impacted by May’s bulletins will have IT teams scrambling to accomplish their flaw remediation tasks this month. Combine those with the workload from Oracle and others and many security pros may unfortunately not get a break this Memorial Day. We have 7 bulletins this month; 3 [...]
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