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SANS Internet Storm Diary has a comprehensive report on Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday: Microsoft December 2022 Patch Tuesday – SANS Internet Storm Center Here is the Microsoft release page: December 2022 Security Updates – Release Notes – Security Update Guide – Microsoft The Microsoft report gives much more information on the …
It’s Microsoft Patch Tuesday but first Apple. SANS Internet Storm Diary has a comprehensive report of the range of Apple updates: Apple Updates Everything – SANS Internet Storm Center Here is the Apple release page: Apple security updates – Apple Support They should be automatic – but you never know …
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The white hat hacking competition Pwn2Own Toronto 2022 has revealed 63 zero-day flaws, that were there to be exploited by black hat hackers if they found them first, and collected nearly a million dollars in bounties: Hackers earn $989,750 for 63 zero-days exploited at Pwn2Own Toronto (bleepingcomputer.com) A good news …
Software is difficult and no matter how much vendors test, both black and white hackers will find vulnerabilities once the software has been released. The issue is how fast does the vendor respond with patches once a vulnerability has been found. Google Chrome emergency update fixes 9th zero-day of the …
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Zero-day attacks will always be a serious issue for anyone involved in cyber security. A zero-day cyber attack is one that happens in the gap between the hackers discovering a vulnerability in a system and putting an exploit out in the wild and the software vendors, discovering the same software …
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