A Critical Adobe Flash Update With Good And Bad News

Adobe has release a critical update for Adobe Flash.

This update is both bad news and it comes with some good news.

First the bad news. [Read more...]

Patch Tuesday April 2011

For Patch Tuesday April 2011 Microsoft seems to be making another record breaking attempt at releasing a large number of patches.

Also, there is yet another Adobe Flash exploit out that is already in use (a 0-day exploit). First, the Microsoft updates:

Window Update

This is what Window Update looks like in the start menu

This month Microsoft has 17 bulletins covering 64 vulnerabilites.

That’s a lot! On Windows XP, I have seen up to [Read more...]

Windows Updates – Patch Tuesday December 2010

It’s that time of year – I mean that time of month again.

Microsoft Patch Tuesday for December 2010 is here.

What does it bring? For most Windows computers somewhere between [Read more...]

Microsoft Issues An Emergency Update To Stop Shortcut Exploit

Ok, if you are running Windows, do a Windows Update before you read any further and then come back.

Today, Microsoft issued an emergency update to fix an exploit that allowed maliciously crafted shortcut files to load malware. [Read more...]

Microsoft Monthly Updates And Nearly Everything Else Updated Too

Microsoft released it’s monthly updates this week.

It looks like Adobe and Apple decided to follow along.

Microsoft’s monthly update fixes up to 25 potential malware vulnerabilities.

One is rated “Patch Now” by the Internet Storm Center [Read more...]