Credit to Author: John E Dunn| Date: Tue, 05 Nov 2019 17:14:21 +0000
Still running Office 2011 on a Mac? If so, there are at least two reasons why that might not be a good idea.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/HjBh551ovHI” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>
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Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2019 09:54:00 -0700
If you had automatic update turned on at the beginning of October, you got clobbered with a bug-infested, out-of-band update for an IE-related zero-day that never appeared in real life. Later in the month, those with automatic update turned on were treated to a wide assortment of bugs (Start and Search fails, RDP redlines, older Visual Basic program blasts) – only some of which were solved with the month’s final, optional, non-security patches.
Link-Local Multicast Name Resolution could enable a man-in-the-middle attack, so it’s best to disable the protocol when setting up Windows Server 2019.
Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:18:00 -0700
October started out on an extraordinarily low note. On Oct. 3, Microsoft released an “out of band” security update to protect all Windows users from an Internet Explorer scripting engine bug, CVE-2019-1367, once thought to be an imminent danger to all things (and all versions) Windows.
It was the third attempt to fix that security hole and each of the versions brought its own set of bugs.
It pays to make sure all permissions in your Windows environment are correct after migrating from Windows 7 or Server 2008 R2. Here’s how to check.
Microsoft has issued guidance and offered resources to help election officials and candidate campaigns to better protect their Windows and Office 365 systems.
Credit to Author: Andy Patrizio| Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2019 11:51:00 -0700
With support ending in January, our Windows 7 Survival Guide for 2020 offers ways to protect your older machines that can't or won't be upgraded.
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Credit to Author: John E Dunn| Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2019 12:06:07 +0000
The flaw is a rare ‘unquoted path class’ described as “so thoroughly documented that you would expect programmers to be well aware…” But that’s not the case.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/PLucYEnVB5k” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>
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Credit to Author: SophosLabs Offensive Security| Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2019 20:00:31 +0000
A relatively low number of vulnerabilities were addressed in this month’s Windows update rollups<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/kC7qjGbuUh8″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>
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Credit to Author: Danny Bradbury| Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2019 12:14:46 +0000
Microsoft fixed 59 vulnerabilities in October’s Patch Tuesday, including several critical remote code execution (RCE) flaws.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/jWWY6mMadts” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>
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