Views: 3,545 So yah, it seems like every implementation of TLS is broken and some may say this Microsoft Schannel vulnerabilty is actually worse than Heartbleed. Why is it worse you ask? Because it allows remote code execution, which honestly – is about as bad as it gets. This is a critical update, a really, […]
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Microsoft Patches Critical Security Vulnerabilities In Windows, Office, IE, Exchange & SQL Server
Views: 1,264 Another huge raft of critical fixes has been pushed out by Microsoft across almost their entire range of products, including client and server side software and the Windows OS itself. It’s been a while since I’ve seen such a huge variety of security issues in one update including 5 critical vulnerabilities. If you […]
No BEAST Fix From Microsoft In December Patch Tuesday – But They Fixed Duqu Bug
Views: 8,234 It looks like Microsoft originally had a patch for the BEAST vulnerability, but for some reason they have withdrawn it for the December Patch Tuesday. It’s a pretty bumper crop of patches though with 13 bulletins and 19 vulnerabilities fixed, the highest profile one being a patch for the zero-day vulnerability exploited by […]
Microsoft Unleashes Record Breaking Patch Tuesday – April 2011
Views: 7,097 We all love Patch Tuesday – no doubt about that right? Well Microsoft has blessed us this month with the biggest Patch Tuesday in the history of the program. That’s a good thing because it’s had some horribly effective vulnerabilities revealed lately. It managed to package up a massive bundle of patches for […]
Microsoft Fixes SSL Spoofing Renegotiation Bug
Views: 6,074 Well this flaw was first publicized in November last year, it was successfully used against Twitter in the same month. IETF completed the SSL vulnerability fix in January this year and now in August – 10 months after the original release of the flaw – Microsoft has stepped up and fixed it. The […]