Microsoft January 2018 Patch Updates
Microsoft issued January 2018 Security Updates that includes patches to fix 16 critical bugs in Microsoft products Office, Word and SharePoint.
Security Updates & Patches
Securezoo Cybersecurity Threat Center blog posts of new security updates and patches.
Apple releases new security updates to address Spectre
Apple released macOS High Sierra 10.13.2 Supplemental Update that includes security improvements to Safari and WebKit to mitigate the effects of Spectre vulnerability (CVE-2017-5753 and CVE-2017-5715). Apple also provided a security update for Safari 11.0.2 for OS X El Capitan 10.11.6 and macOS Sierra 10.12.6, with fixes for the same Spectre vulnerabilities. The MacOS High Sierra update will already upgrade Safari to version 11.0.2 (13604.4.7.1.6) or version 11.0.2 …
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Vendors issue security updates for Spectre and Meltdown
Software and hardware vendors have issued advisories and fixes for “Spectre” (speculative execution side-channel attack) and “Meltdown” vulnerabilities, related to recently disclosed CPU processor design flaws.
Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities
US-CERT issued a security update regarding the latest Intel processor design flaws. According to the vulnerability note, the CPU hardware implementations are vulnerable to side-channel attacks. The two vulnerabilities are referred to as Meltdown and Spectre. An excerpt from the advisory: “CPU hardware implementations are vulnerable to side-channel attacks referred to as Meltdown and Spectre. These attacks are described in detail by Google Project …
OpenEMR vulnerability
An OpenEMR vulnerability could expose millions of medical records to attackers. The flaw has been patched with OpenEMR 5.0.0 Patch 6 a couple of weeks ago. Unpatched versions could allow an attacker to steal patient records and personal data by exploiting the vulnerability in the setup.php installation script. OpenEMR is a popular open source electronic health records and medical practice …
Microsoft November 2017 Security Updates
On Tuesday, Microsoft issued patches to address 53 vulnerabilities, to include 20 critical fixes, as part of November security updates. Also noteworthy was four of the fixes addressed vulnerabilities with known public exploits (CVE-2017-11848, CVE-2017-11827, CVE-2017-11883 and CVE-2017-8700).
GnuPG crypto vulnerability exposed
A team of security researchers from several universities have cracked the 1024-bit RSA encryption in theLibgcrypt cryptographic library used by GnuPG.