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How Patch Tuesday Keeps the Beat After 20 Years

On Oct. 9, 2003, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announced that the company would only issue security patches once a month to "reduce the burden...

Microsoft fixes two 0-days on Patch Tuesday – update now!

by Paul Ducklin Thanks to the precise four-week length of February this year, last month’s coincidence of Firefox and Microsoft...

Microsoft’s new Windows 11 features arrive next week

Microsoft says its new Windows 11 update will be generally available on March 14th. However, reports also indicate that the next feature update,...

S3 Ep122: Stop calling every breach “sophisticated”! [Audio + Text]

by Paul Ducklin CAN WE STOP WITH THE “SOPHISTICATED” ALREADY? The birth of ENIAC. A “sophisticated attack” (someone got phished). A...

Microsoft Patch Tuesday: 36 RCE bugs, 3 zero-days, 75 CVEs

by Paul Ducklin Deciphering Microsoft’s official Update Guide web pages is not for the faint-hearted. Most of the information you need,...

Serious Security: The Samba logon bug caused by outdated crypto

by Paul Ducklin Samba, simply put, is a super-useful, mega-popular, open-source reimplementation of the networking protocols used in Microsoft Windows,...

Researchers Pioneer PoC Exploit for NSA-Reported Bug in Windows CryptoAPI

Researchers have developed a proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit for a public x.509 certificate-spoofing vulnerability in the Windows CryptoAPI that the NSA and the National Cyber Security...

S3 Ep117: The crypto crisis that wasn’t (and farewell forever to Win 7) [Audio + Text]

by Paul Ducklin THE CRYPTO CRISIS THAT WASN’T Click-and-drag on the soundwaves below to skip to any point. You can also...

Microsoft Patch Tuesday: One 0-day; Win 7 and 8.1 get last-ever patches

by Paul Ducklin As far as we can tell, there are a whopping 2874 items in this month’s Patch Tuesday...

Microsoft dishes the dirt on Apple’s “Achilles heel” shortly after fixing similar Windows bug

by Paul Ducklin When we woke up this morning, our cybersecurity infofeed was awash with “news” that Apple had just...

S3 Ep113: Pwning the Windows kernel – the crooks who hoodwinked Microsoft [Audio + Text]

by Paul Ducklin PWNING THE WINDOWS KERNEL Click-and-drag on the soundwaves below to skip to any point. You can also listen...

Patch Tuesday: 0-days, RCE bugs, and a curious tale of signed malware

by Paul Ducklin Another month, another Microsoft Patch Tuesday, another 48 patches, another two zero-days… …and an astonishing tale about a...

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