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Another Patch Tuesday is upon us, and both Microsoft and Adobe have important patches that you should implement right away if you’re impacted. Adobe’s big patch fixes a ColdFusion exploit that allows an attacker to...

Maybe it was something in the water, but the last week of May was indeed a week of extremes–from the biggest threat on record to the tiniest Trojan to an unusual and completely unexpected act of transparency from Apple. H...

Updates, upgrades and patches, oh my. The week of May 7-11 was indeed a week of major patches from some of the biggest players. The good news is, many of the most popular OSes, Web browsers and applications are now a tad more s...

Both Microsoft and Adobe delivered their one-two punch that aimed at plugging security holes and halting active exploits dead in their tracks for the month of May. And while the Microsoft and Adobe both addressed critical flaw...

Infections and exploits plagued this week in security, affecting everything from the Mac OS X to Oracle database servers. High profile leaks and a passage of a controversial information sharing bill also graced the security lan...

Last week, critical security bugs were addressed with Apple-and Microsoft-issued updates, while HP scrambled to warn users about ProCurve switches shipped with malware. Here’s a look at the security landscape for April 9-...

Tuesday was quite a day for IT administrators—for the month of April, both Microsoft and Adobe released patch loads repairing a slew of critical flaws that could easily pave the way for users to become victims of malicious atta...

“Big” seemed to epitomize last week in security—from big botnet takedowns to big breaches to big privacy issues related to a certain social networking site. Here is this week’s lowdown. Zeus Takedown: Microsoft kicked of...

If you haven’t yet installed the latest patch apsb10-07 for your Adobe Reader and Acrobat, you should hurry. The exploit is in the wild! In this post I will dissect a PDF document (MD5: 48e0cc8629d492a64a2767949d2ed9bc), ...

Microsoft released bulletin MS09-067 on Nov 10, 2009. Same as in 2008, this last bulletin for Microsoft Office Excel in 2009 gives a total number of 17 vulnerabilities for this popular product. As the biggest contributor, Forti...

Our April 2009 Threat Landscape Report is now available, recapping a month of threat activity from exploits and malware, to spam. Here are some key movements from the report along with comments: Waledac is one of the most acti...