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Tripwire Patch Priority Index for October 2020
Tripwire‘s October 2020 Patch Priority Index (PPI) brings together important vulnerabilities from Microsoft, Apple, Adobe, and Oracle. First on the patch priority list this month is a very high priority vulnerability in ...
WeChat Banned, TikTok Saved
The past few weeks have seen a flurry of activity surrounding two Chinese apps, TikTok (Bytdance) and WeChat (Tencent) and their ability to continue to have a presence in the United States ...
Tripwire Patch Priority Index for July 2020
Tripwire’s July 2020 Patch Priority Index (PPI) brings together important vulnerabilities from Microsoft, F5 Networks, Cisco, and Oracle. Up first on the patch priority list this month are patches for F5 Networks ...
Thirty-four years in IT – The Application That Almost Broke Me (Part 9)
The last half of 2011 was for me an my team a really, really tough time.As I hinted to in this post, by August 2011 we were buried in Oracle 11 & ...
Oracle Spews 334 Patches, Many Critical. You Know the Drill
Next up: Oracle’s latest quarterly patch batch. Hundreds of separate bugs squashed, many extremely serious ...
Thirty-four years in IT – Swimming with the Itanic (Part 8)
For historical reasons, we were a strong VMS shop. Before they imploded, Digital Equipment treated EDU's very kindly, offering extremely good pricing on software in exchange for hardware adoption. In essence, a ...
Improve Security by Thinking Beyond the Security Realm
It used to be that dairy farmers relied on whatever was growing in the area to feed their cattle. They filled the trough with vegetation grown right on the farm. They probably ...
Convergence is the Key to Future-Proofing Security
I published a new article today on the Oracle Security blog that looks at the benefits of convergence in the security space as the IT landscape grows more disparate and distributed.Security professionals ...
Notorious ‘Hijack Factory’ Shunned from Web
Score one for the good guys: Bitcanal, a Portuguese Web hosting firm long accused of helping spammers hijack large swaths of dormant Internet address space over the years, was summarily kicked off ...
July Patch Tuesday – Critical browser patches, Lazy FP, Exchange, Adobe vulns
This month’s Patch Tuesday is medium in weight, with 54 CVEs containing 17 Criticals. All but two of the Critical vulnerabilities are in Microsoft’s browsers or browser-related technologies. An additional speculative execution ...
