June's Patch Tuesday is a little heavier than usual with Microsoft, Adobe, and Java all dogpiling on the poor sysadmins. Not only the quantity of the updates are concerning but the severity as well. Microsoft and Java are reporting zero-day attacks for the vulnerabilities they are patching. … [Read more...]
Windows Updates and WSUS hardening to prevent abuse
Tomorrow will be June's Patch Tuesday for Microsoft. Seven security bulletins were posted to address a number of remote code execution critical vulnerabilities and important elevation of privilege vulnerabilities. Even with Patch Tuesday coming tomorrow, Microsoft has already been busy this month releasing two updates to harden Windows Updates and WSUS in response to the Flame … [Read more...]
The Athen’s Affair – the phone switch hacking case of 2004-2005
The Greek wiretapping case from 2004-2005 proves to be a very intriguing tale of not so long ago. The case involved a rootkit being installed on the switches of Greek wireless provider Vodafone Greece with the lead up to the Athens Olympics and well beyond. The incident is beyond technically interesting though, it's a lesson hard-learned on responding to security incidents. The … [Read more...]
Adobe Flash Player 11.3 brings new security features
Adobe released updates to Flash Player yesterday for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android platforms. While addressing a number of vulnerabilities, this version also introduces Flash Player Protected Mode (sandbox) for Windows Firefox users. The Flash Player for Mac OS X includes the background updater and is signed with an Apple Developer ID to ensure compatibility with the new … [Read more...]
Adobe provides Photoshop and Illustrator CS5 security patches
Being told to buy CS6 as the recommended security update for Photoshop, Illustrator, and Flash CS5 did not sit well with customers. Adobe later recanted and promised updates to fix the known security vulnerabilities beyond their "be careful" recommendation. Yesterday, Adobe delivered the updates to Photoshop CS5 / CS5.1 and Illustrator CS5 / CS5.5. The update to Adobe Flash … [Read more...]