The Drupal security team issued a patch on October 15. On October 29, it issued a public service announcement that states—in a nutshell—if you didn’t implement the patch within seven hours of its release you should assume your site is […]
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Good news: Nearly nine out of ten Windows PCs have Automatic Updates enabled. Bad news: Less than three in ten Windows PCs are actually current with the latest patches and updates. You might ask yourself, “How is that possible?” Well,
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Microsoft issued an update with the October Patch Tuesday security bulletins to address a zero day vulnerability in Windows used by the Sandworm cyber espionage campaign (MS14-060). Apparently the fix doesn’t fully address the flaws in the vulnerable OLE component,
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Dune is my favorite book of all time. I have read the original Dune trilogy more than once, and I have read many of the subsequent and peripheral titles related to the epic Dune saga. I used to own and
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While the entire world was focused on the Apple media event today, and the unveiling of the iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus, and the Apple Watch, it also happened to be the second Tuesday of the month, which makes it
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Microsoft issued six new security bulletins for the July 2014 Patch Tuesday. One of them is a Critical update for Internet Explorer that fixes 24 separate vulnerabilities. For those keeping score, that makes 83 flaws fixed in Microsoft’s Web browser
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It is only one of seven security bulletins issued by Microsoft for the June 2014 Patch Tuesday, but MS14-035 is by far the most urgent and critical of the bunch. This one update fixes 59 separate vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer.
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Microsoft released eight new security bulletins for the November Patch Tuesday, bringing the total for 2013 to 95 security bulletins so far. With only three Critical, and five Important security bulletins, it’s a generally light month for IT admins. The
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