Serial bughunter Mark Dowd found a hole where it *really* wasn’t wanted. In the text messaging software on the “absolute privacy” Blackphone…
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Update Tuesday wrap-up, January 2015 – See? We didn’t use the word “Patch”!
Like fingers and thumbs, not all updates are patches, even if all patches are updates. So, here’s the skinny on Update Tuesday…including the security patches, of course.
Patch Tuesday wrap-up, December 2014 – why “Important” can be Critical…
Adobe and Microsoft put forth their respective Patch Tuesday updates this week, bringing you their last scheduled patches of 2014. Paul Ducklin digs in…
WordPress issues critical security fixes, closing remote anonymous compromise bug and more
WordPress has just published a critical security release. If you’re still on WordPress 3, this is about as critical as it gets, because one of the fixes closes a “remote anonymous compromise” bug.
Patch Tuesday wrap-up, November 2014: Microsoft joins the “security hole in HTTPS” club
Here’s what you need to know about the September 2014 Patch Tuesday updates from Microsoft and Adobe…
Are you tired of weak or fake zero-day exploits? 60 Sec Security [VIDEO]
Watch our latest 60 Second Security video! An entertaining but insightful look at the week’s security woes – in just one minute…
Bash “Shellshock” vulnerability – what you need to know
Shellshock is the media-friendly name for a remote code execution hole in Bash, a command shell commonly used on Linux and UNIX systems. Paul Ducklin explains…
Firefox sneaks out an “inbetweener” update, with security improvements rather than fixes
Usually, if everything goes according to plan, Firefox updates appear every six weeks. But if needs must, Mozilla delivers in-between updates, too, and that’s what has happened here, bumping Firefox from version 32.0 to 32.0.1.
SSCC 164 – Spend Bitcoins using Apple Pay? *NOW* you’ve got me interested! [PODCAST]
Here’s this week’s Sophos Security Chet Chat for your listening pleasure. Our weekly computer security podcast with the News You Can Use…
Firefox 32.0 fixes holes, shakes out some old SSL certs, introduces certificate pinning
Yesterday was Firefox’s Fortytwosday (updates come out every 42 days, on Tuesdays, in a nod to Douglas Adams), bringing us to Firefox 32.0. There are also two Extended Support Releases for the more conservative amongst us… 