Oracle is planning to release 88 patches on Tuesday, covering vulnerabilities affecting a wide array of its products, according to a pre-release announcement posted to its website on Thursday. Tuesday’s scheduled patch release is larger than Oracle’s last quarterly critical patch update in January, when it released 78 fixes. The…
Microsoft April 2012 Patch Tuesday repairs critical IE flaws, ActiveX control issue
Microsoft repaired 11 vulnerabilities in April, including a critical update to its Internet Explorer browser and an ActiveX fix that affects a variety of software and server systems. View full post on SearchSecurity: Security Wire Daily News View full post on National Cyber Security
April 2012 Patch Tuesday: Microsoft to issue six bulletins, four critical
Microsoft?s six bulletins include critical server repairs, Internet Explorer updates and a critical update of its .NET Framework. View full post on SearchSecurity: Security Wire Daily News View full post on National Cyber Security
‘Malnets’ will become major online security issue in 2012: report
Rachel King is a staff writer for CBS Interactive in San Francisco. Before serving as a contributing editor at ZDNet in New York City for two years, she previously worked for The Business Insider, FastCompany.com, CNN’s San Francisco bureau and the U.S. Department of State. Rachel has also written for…
Microsoft to issue nine security updates in February Patch Tuesday
Microsoft is set to deliver nine security updates next week, four of them critical, to patch 21 vulnerabilities in Windows, Internet Explorer, Office, .Net and Silverlight. This year’s February Patch Tuesday will feature three fewer updates and one less patch than 2011′s. Four of the nine updates were tagged “critical,”…
iPhone App Raises Social Network Privacy Issue
A privacy debate surrounding fledgling social network Path went viral, triggering discussions on blogs and on Twitter about how far social networks can go in using members’ private data. Path was sharply criticized in blogs and social media forums after an independent software developer revealed that Path’s Apple iPhone application…
Microsoft issue Patch Tuesday fix for Media Player and security bypass
Microsoft fixed seven bulletins, one deemed critical, and a handful of new security issues yesterday as the first Patch Tuesday of 2012 was issued. Although Microsoft tied a previous high for bulletins issued in January, Qualys CTO Wolfgang Kandek isn’t so concerned about large numbers. The growing number of Microsoft…
Microsoft issue Patch Tuesday fix for Media Player and security bypass
Microsoft fixed seven bulletins, one deemed critical, and a handful of new security issues yesterday as the first Patch Tuesday of 2012 was issued. Although Microsoft tied a previous high for bulletins issued in January, Qualys CTO Wolfgang Kandek isn’t so concerned about large numbers. The growing number of Microsoft…
How Playboy’s Million-Dollar Lindsay Lohan Issue Was Scooped by Hacker
The December issue of Playboy magazine — featuring a nude Lindsay Lohan and due to hit newsstands next week — was leaked online Friday after copies of the photos were either hacked or stolen from the magazine and uploaded to a file-sharing website based in Russia, FoxNews.com has learned. Playboy’s…
Fraud to rise as banks issue more cards
PHILIPPINE banks are at risk of card fraud as they ramp up their consumer banking business, an executive at a technology firm yesterday said. View full post on credit card fraud – Yahoo! News Search Results View full post on National Cyber Security