Topic
Software Vulnerabilities
35 published works
Your IT Consultant
Flash is Dead – Uninstall Now
By John Simek
Adobe Flash has long been on the top of the list of insecure software. Many websites are still using Flash even though it is under constant attack. Adobe intends to…
Ride the Lightning
NSA Discovered a Serious Microsoft Software Vulnerability – and Told Microsoft
The NSA has a reputation for weaponizing software vulnerabilities so it can utilize the vulnerabilities itself. But bully for the NSA – not this time. The Washington Post (sub.req.) reported…
Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider
Privacy Tip #194 – NSA Issues Alert to Microsoft Windows Users
Many individuals and not-for-profit organizations, including those in the health care industry, believe that they do not have the resources to update to the newest versions of software. However, the…
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Microsoft Update Breaks Some Anti-virus Software
By John Simek
Apparently, the April 9th security update from Microsoft wasn’t too kind to several anti-virus vendors according to a post on Threatpost. According to Microsoft, the update resulted in some computers…
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Acrobat Users – Update Now
By John Simek
Normally, Adobe releases fixes around the middle of the month to coordinate with Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday. However, there have been more out-of-band releases recently. Adobe just released such patches to…
Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider
Patch, Patch, Patch Those Vulnerabilities
The bane of data security is the patch. The patch is what your IT guys are doing in the background to fix vulnerabilities in software that are known to the…
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Emergency Patch for Internet Explorer
By John Simek
Is anyone still using IE? Perhaps not, but it is still installed on a ton of Windows machines. Then again, there are those websites that haven’t been updated and won’t…
Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider
Privacy Tip #121 – Patch Patch Patch
We all learned the hard way how important patching vulnerabilities are when a major data breach occurred during 2017 that exposed the personal information of 80% of U.S. adults that…
Data Counsel
Deception and Unfair Practices Come Preinstalled
By Benjamin Barnes, Alan L. Friel
Lenovo, a manufacturer of personal computers, recently agreed, among other things, to implement a software security program in a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) over issues with third-party…
Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider
US-CERT Warns of Old SAP Software Vulnerability
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) recently issued an alert to the public about a vulnerability in old software developed by SAP SE that cyberattackers…