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Apple releases patches addressing the Spectre vulnerability impacting its macOS, iPhone, iPad and iPod touch.
Adobe released an important security hotfix for several versions of Coldfusion, resolving two bugs, Tuesday morning.
With Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday release tomorrow, the countdown begins for application developers to button down code ahead of Microsoft’s new servicing model starting in October that could present vulnerability issues for some businesses. “Tomorrow it’s going to be business as usual, but it will also raise anxiety as we get closer to October,” said Chris...
Cisco Systems issued a “critical” patch on Wednesday for its Nexus 3000 and 3500 series switches that allow remote attackers to access default account and static password information on affected hardware. The vulnerability could allow an unauthenticated user to log in to the affected system with the privileges of a root user. The account is...
23 October 2015 - 10:05,
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If you’re one of those people who waits for the first update to an update before you install it… …and you’re also an OS X or an iOS user, then your number’s just been called. In a flurry of Security Advisories published this week [2015-10-21] by Apple, the following security-oriented updates were announced: OS X...
16 October 2015 - 12:58,
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Get ready! We’re about to run the gauntlet of Mactivists, and we’d love you to join us. The story is a simple one: Apple released updates for iMovie and iWork this week (get ready for about 1GB of download in total), bumping up the middle digit of the products’ version numbers. Keynote on OS X,...
25 September 2015 - 12:55,
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We’ve written several reports over the past year about a malware toolkit that uses Microsoft Word as its delivery vehicle. The idea is to package malware inside a Word document in such a way that the file looks innocent, with no macros (Word program code), no embedded programs, or other content that might make a...
17 September 2015 - 11:58,
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Apple iOS 9 is out. As usual when the left-most number changes, as here from version 8 to version 9, the download is bigger than your typical point release. For example, when we recently updated to 8.4.1, the download was about 50MB; this time, the over-the-air (OTA) update we were offered was 1.2GB. → Because...
8 September 2015 - 17:33,
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Do you keep databases with information about other people? Do you allow teleworkers, road warriors, suppliers, contractors and so on to connect in remotely? Do you accept payments, for example from credit cards or NFC devices? Do you make payments of your own online? Do you keep important business or personal data – tax returns,...