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Article | 11/01/2013 Oracle to release 86 security patches, including 18 for MySQL
Oracle is preparing to ship 86 patches covering security vulnerabilities in a wide span of its products, with 18 of the fixes aimed at the MySQL datab...
Article | 9/01/2013 Adobe patches critical vulnerabilities in Flash Player, Reader and Acrobat
Adobe Systems released new versions of Flash Player, Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat on Tuesday in order to address a total of 28 critical security vul...
Article | 3/01/2013 Ruby on Rails security updates address SQL injection flaw
The developers of Ruby on Rails, a popular Web application development framework for the Ruby programming language, released versions 3.2.10, 3.1.9, a...
Article | 2/01/2013 Microsoft issues 'fix it' for IE vulnerability
Microsoft has released a quick fix for a vulnerability in older versions of its Internet Explorer browser that is actively being used by attackers to ...
Article | 12/12/2012 Adobe releases security updates for Flash Player and ColdFusion
Adobe released security updates for its Flash Player and ColdFusion products on Tuesday in order to address critical vulnerabilities that could give a...
Article | 9/11/2012 Cisco recommends McAfee switch for IronPort customers hit by Sophos flaws
Cisco Systems has warned customers about critical vulnerabilities in the Sophos antivirus engine included in its Cisco IronPort email and Web security...
Article | 6/11/2012 Researcher finds critical vulnerabilities in Sophos antivirus product
Security researcher Tavis Ormandy discovered critical vulnerabilities in the antivirus product developed by U.K.-based security firm Sophos and advise...
Article | 29/10/2012 Critical remote code execution vulnerability fixed in Exim email server
Developers of the popular Exim email server software released an emergency update on Friday to address a critical vulnerability that could allow attac...
Article | 24/10/2012 Adobe patches six critical vulnerabilities in Shockwave Player
Adobe has fixed six critical vulnerabilities in Shockwave Player that could potentially be exploited by attackers to execute malicious code, via the r...
Article | 22/12/2011 LibreOffice backers want community to join 'bug hunt'
The organization behind LibreOffice is hoping community members will help it uncover problems with an upcoming release of the open-source office suite...
Article | 26/11/2011 Unpatched Apache reverse proxy flaw allows access to internal network
A yet-to-be-patched flaw discovered in the Apache HTTP server allows attackers to access protected resources on the internal network if some rewrite r...
Article | 18/11/2011 Google Chrome update addresses high-severity flaw
Google has released an update for Chrome 15 which addresses a high-risk vulnerability. The security issue is the result of an out-of-bounds memory wri...
Article | 15/11/2011 Apple secures iTunes update checking to address man-in-the-middle vulnerability
Apple's iTunes 10.5.1 update addresses a weakness in the application's update mechanism that could be exploited to trick users into visiting malicious...
Article | 4/11/2011 Microsoft issues workaround for Duqu attack while it prepares a patch
Microsoft has published code to temporarily blunt attacks against a software vulnerability exploited by Duqu, an advanced piece of malicious software ...
Article | 20/10/2011 Opera denies refusing to patch critical vulnerability
Opera Software has released an update for its desktop browser in order to address a critical vulnerability in its handling of Scalable Vector Graphics...