A few years back, business came to a grinding halt for a European supermarket chain when it was infected with the Conficker virus. The virus caused the system to slowly use up all the system resources ...

Organizations that use the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) to prioritize the patching of software security vulnerabilities reduce their potential exploitability compared with randomly ...

Everyday tools like PDF readers, email clients, and archive utilities quietly define the real attack surface. Action1 explains how third-party software drift increases exploit risk and why consistent ...

Mississippi State University Information Technology Services will continue deploying a third-party software-patching application to Windows-based desktop computer next week. The rollout of KACE, an ...

FAIRFAX, Va., May 12, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- A universal law enforcement axiom states that criminals prefer to trespass through vulnerable open or unlocked doors or windows. In the IT and software ...

Recent cybersecurity events, highlighted by a major breach at ICBC bank, have cast a glaring spotlight on the importance of patching as a vital component of cybersecurity. This recent incident, ...

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--XENOptics, a leading enabler of zero touch fiber networks, is showcasing its software-defined patching solution at OFC 2017. The XENOptics solution includes an automated ...

I want to begin by apologizing to everyone who has written of late and not seen his or her comments in this missive. I love showcasing reader thoughts and I’m well behind on doing so. (Am I the only ...

Recently a high-severity heap overflow vulnerability was disclosed for the popular Client for URL—or curl— utility and associated library, libcurl, which are used for retrieving data from the web over ...

Microsoft has made available a tool to fix . SUS is an older version of Microsoft's current Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) software that lets users manage patches for multiple computers. The ...

Software Update Services (SUS), an older version of Microsoft's software that lets users manage patches for multiple computers, has hit a snag. "If you synchronize your server after December 12, 2005, ...