Tag Archives: Updates
Apple iTunes 10.5, iOS 5 and many other updates are available
In case you didn’t know, Apple released today the new update of iOS for iPhone and iPad. The rollout has reached also Germany on Wednesday in the late afternoon. I will not go through the features of iOS5 nor through … Continue reading
Adobe and Microsoft released security updates
Adobe finally released its software which now removed completely the DigiNotar certificates from their Approved Trust List (AATL). Despite the fact that Adobe released a few day ago detailed instructions how to manually remove the certificate, we strongly suggest to all readers … Continue reading
More updates because of invalidated fraudulent certificates
The Mozilla Foundation issued the Security Advisory 2011-34 in order to completely remove the DigiNotar root certificate from its trusted vendors repository. We are missing any news from Apple which seems to completely ignore the entire issue. We haven’t see … Continue reading
Security Updates for Flash Player and Chrome
Google just updated the Chrome web browser to version 11.0.696.68. The new release fixes at least two security vulnerabilities. The article from the Google Chrome Release Blog with details about the changes disappeared again unfortunately. Additionally, the integrated Flash Player … Continue reading
Microsoft delivers 2 Updates for 3 Vulnerabilities
On the May 2011 Patch Tuesday, Microsoft released 2 security bulletins with according updates to close 3 security holes – just as announced last week. One of them is a critical and only affects the WINS server of Windows Server … Continue reading
Browser Updates
Just a few days ago, two major web browsers have been updated to fix security vulnerabilities which may allow attackers to infect the computer with malware just by visiting a hacked website. Google released version 11 of the Chrome web … Continue reading
The Update Wave is rolling
Today some updates need attention – they fix critical security issues and should be installed immediately! The update reign starts off with Apple. Critical security vulnerabilities are closed within the Safari web browser 5.0.5 – they allowed cyber criminals to … Continue reading
Adobe plans Flash Player Update tomorrow
This is good news – for the recently acknowledged zero-day security vulnerability within Adobe Flash Player, Acrobat and Reader there will be a first update available tomorrow. Adobe updated their security advisory on that matter to reflect the update schedule … Continue reading
Many Updates on Patch Tuesday
Just as announced Friday last week, Microsoft released 17 security bulletins and according updates, fixing overall more than 60 security vulnerabilities in Windows, Internet Explorer, Office and the Developer tools. According to the exploitability index of the security bulletin summary, … Continue reading
Improve your Security #4: Update your Software often
Every week or even day we see new vulnerabilities popping up in all software packages which we use daily: In the operating system (Windows, Mac, Linux), PDF Readers, Web browsers, Mail clients, Office suites, and so on. It is critical … Continue reading