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Tag Archives: Patching
Patch early, patch often – and patch everything!
Here’s our latest Naked Security Live video – all about WordPress, plugins and patching.
Android gets September update as price of flaws soars
When is a security update not a security update? When it’s patching flaws in a version of an OS nobody beyond developers is yet running.
Emergency iOS patch fixes jailbreaking flaw for second time
With iOS 13 nearing release, Apple users perhaps thought they were done with iOS 12 updates for good. If so, they were wrong.
Latest Android patches fix critical ‘QualPwn’ Wi-Fi flaws
The August 2019 security bulletin is out – and two of the critical flaws could allow an attacker to compromise the Android system kernel.
‘Urgent/11’ flaws affect 200 million devices – from routers to elevators
There are 11 security flaws affecting VxWorks: “the most widely used operating system you may never have heard about”.
Patch Android! July 2019 update fixes 9 critical flaws
Depending on when users receive it, this week’s Android’s July patch update will fix 33 security vulnerabilities, including 9 marked critical, and 24 marked high.
Mozilla patched two Firefox zero-day flaws in one week
Two emergency zero days affecting a browser in one week counts as unusual – especially when they pop up as separate alerts two days apart.
Netflix researcher spots TCP SACK flaws in Linux and FreeBSD
Three vulnerabilities in the FreeBSD and Linux kernels could allow attackers to induce a denial-of-service by clogging networking I/O.
Critical Adobe Flash player bug and more in June’s Patch Tuesday
June patch Tuesday features fixes from Adobe and Microsoft for critical flaws including a remote code vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player.