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 [...]
Is Apple the New Adobe?
April 13th, 2012
A security weakness in Apple Quicktime Java Extensions was reported to Apple today (along with proof of concept code) by Adam Gowdiak, a resarcher with Security Explorations in Poland. The issue impacts Quicktime 7.7.1 running on Windows XP SP3, Windows 7 HP 64-bit, Windows 7 Pro 32-bit, along with web browsers; Mozilla Firefox 11.0, Internet Explorer [...]
In Life There are Two Certainties – Taxes and Patches
April 10th, 2012
As we approach April 15, we get to deal with both filing our income taxes and a taxing bunch of patches from Microsoft and others. While the overall number of patches from Microsoft is light, we have 4 critical patches along with two important ones. They impact a wide array of platforms and applications including [...]
Is BackDoor.Flashback.39 Trojan Going to be Apple’s Conficker?
April 9th, 2012
With 274 of the 600,000 infected Mac’s now being reported as being in Cupertino – Apple’s hometown – maybe they will feel a little of the pain their users are now feeling and get serious about being more candid and perhaps more revelaing in their patch release notifications. Calculating the number of infected Macs this [...]
Keeping Secrets Leads to Betrayal of Trust
September 6th, 2011
Microsoft, Google and Mozilla and have all now blocked SSL certificates from DigiNotar with complete revocation of trust – simply put, all certificates issued by DigiNotar are no longer accepted as trusted by the Internet’s primary browser vendors. It’s important to note that the certificate revocation from Microsoft includes Windows 7, Windows Vista and now [...]
July 2011 Patch Tuesday Security Briefing
July 12th, 2011
Paul Henry, Security and Forensics Analyst for Lumension, discusses the impact of the July 2011 Patch Tuesday releases.
July Patches Brings Protections From BlueTooth Bandits and Social Savvy Spear Phishers
July 12th, 2011
While this Patch Tuesday may appear insignificant with just 4 patches (a quarter of what we saw last month), the reality is that it will be rather disruptive. All patches impact Windows and Office and require a restart. Priorities for July? The MS11-053 patch is critical and warrants immediate attention if your environment is Bluetooth [...]
Light Patch Load from Microsoft This Month – But More than Enough Work to Go Around
March 8th, 2011
This Patch Tuesday wasn’t very large, but it was serious. Two of the patches we saw were in Windows, and the third in Office. All patches addressed issues providing for remote code execution, which is top of mind for IT flaw remediation specialists. If you’re using the Remote Desktop Client, MS11-017 should be your top [...]
iPad Security Considerations For The Enterprise
September 13th, 2010
Apple took a great deal of heat early on by releasing the original iPhone with little consideration for enterprise security. As a result, Apple has since built in a number of what many consider to be necessary enterprise security mechanisms into the iPad. When it comes to security, the iPad – with the right policies [...]
Does ‘Death of the Web’ Mean a More Secure Internet?
August 27th, 2010
So, the web is dead. Or so says the latest cover of Wired Magazine. I must admit, seeing this pronouncement (in bright orange!) pop out of my mailbox caused me to stop in my tracks. But the hot Arizona sun soon had me scrambling for the cover of my comfortably AC’d house and I continued [...]
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