Patches This Week Microsoft issued an emergency out of band patch for an Internet Explorer zero day bug that affects IE 9, 10 and 11 on Windows 7,8,10 and the related server versions. The bug allows a hacker to remotely execute code by getting a victim to view a web page, HTML document, PDF or […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]No big surprise here really, but still disappointing. Researchers at Def Con last week reported that they had found 47 vulnerabilities in the firmware and default apps of 25 Android phones. When they talk firmware, I don’t think they really mean firmware. Rather, they mean the operating system like Android Oreo or Nougat, although it […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Microsoft just published a critical patch for a 19 year old bug that dates back to Windows 95 and Internet Explorer 3.0. First the obvious – since it was still there after 19 years, all the testing that Microsoft and users have done on every version of windows back to and including Windows 95 did […]
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