Patch Tuesday Becomes OMG Tuesday

April 14, 2020 CyberCecurity Leave a comment

Today is patch Tuesday. A group of major software vendors released 567 patches. Microsoft released patches for 113 vulnerabilities. Oracle released patches for 405 vulnerabilities. SAP, Intel, Adobe and VMWare accounted for another 49. If you read last week’s post on the 24/72 metric, this means that you have to apply 500+ patches in less […]

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Experts Say This Month’s Microsoft Patches Should Be Applied Quickly

November 13, 2014 CyberCecurity

An article in SC Magazine recommends that organizations apply this month’s Microsoft patches very quickly. Among the patches: One vulnerability, CVE-2014-6332, had been remotely exploitable for 18 years prior to its patch, and could be used by an attacker to circumvent Microsoft’s free anti-exploitation tool EMET and its Enhanced Protected Mode (EPM) sandbox in Internet […]

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