Tag Archives: cyber monday

The Current State of Privileged Access Management Practices (Help Net Security)

There’s a widening gulf between organizations that adhere to best practices for privileged access management, according to BeyondTrust. With 63% (2016 Verizon DBIR) of confirmed... More

Weekend Vulnerability and Patch Report, July 17, 2016 (Citadel Information Group)

Important Security Updates Adobe Reader: Adobe has released version 2015.017.20050. Updates are available through the program’s Help menu/Check for Updates or from Adobe’s web... More

Weekend Vulnerability and Patch Report, July 10, 2016 (Citadel Information Group)

Important Security Updates Dropbox: Dropbox has released version 6.4.14 for its file hosting program. Updates are available at Dropbox’s website. [See Citadel’s warning below]... More

Weekend Vulnerability and Patch Report, June 5, 2016 (Citadel Information Group)

Important Security Updates Apple iTunes: Apple has released version 12.4.1 (64-bit and 32-bit) of iTunes. Updates are available from Apple’s website. AVG: AVG has released vers... More

Weekend Vulnerability and Patch Report, May 29, 2016 (Citadel Information Group)

Important Security Updates AVG: AVG has released version 2016.71.7598 of its AntiVirus, Internet Security, and Free Edition products. Updates are available on AVG’s website. Ax... More

Weekend Vulnerability and Patch Report, May 22, 2016 (Citadel Information Group)

Important Security Updates 7-Zip: 7-Zip.org has released version 16.01 (32-bit and 64-bit). Updates are available from 7-Zip’s website. Apple iOS: Apple has released version 9.... More

Weekend Vulnerability and Patch Report, May 15, 2016 (Citadel Information Group)

Important Security Updates 7-Zip: 7-Zip.org has released version 16.00 (32-bit and 64-bit). Updates are available from 7-Zip’s website. Adobe Flash Player: Adobe has released v... More

Microsoft to Retire Support for SHA1 Certificates in the Next 4 Months (ARS Technica)

Microsoft plans to retire support for TLS certificates signed by the SHA1 hashing algorithm in the next four months, an acceleration brought on by new research showing it was even ... More

Aging and Bloated OpenSSL is Purged of Two High-Severity Bugs (ARS Technica)

Maintainers of the OpenSSL cryptographic library have patched high-severity holes that could make it possible for attackers to decrypt login credentials or execute malicious code o... More

Criminals Peddling Affordable AlphaLocker Ransomware (Threat Post)

It’s rare a week goes by now without a new strain of ransomware making headlines. Researchers described one of the latest earlier this week, a relatively affordable ransomware-as... More