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WatchGuard Security Week in Review: Episode 22

June 15, 2012 By Corey Nachreiner

Lots of Software Updates and Security Patches.

The theme of this week’s security summary is software updates.

Microsoft’s Patch Day falls on the second Tuesday of the month, and many others follow Microsoft, releasing their own security updates during the same day or week. This week, we saw updates to fix security vulnerabilities in Microsoft, Adobe, Oracle, Apple, and VMware products. We even saw an emergency workaround to fix a serious zero day vulnerability in Microsoft’s XML Core Services.

Besides the software patches, this week’s video also highlights a few new Flame-related  updates, and a warning about Father’s Day-related malware campaigns. Watch the video below to learn the details.

As usual, if you’d don’t like videos, or want to dive into the details of each of these stories, make sure to check out the Reference section below. Thanks for watching, and if you have any comments, feedback, or questions, leave them in the comments section below.

(Episode Runtime: 13:49)

Direct YouTube Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kd3-sMg9oJc

Episode References:

  • Microsoft Patch Day – WatchGuard Security Center
    • June Patch Day summary
    • IE Cumulative Patch
    • Windows consolidated alert (including RDP update)
    • Lync and Dynamics AX updates
    • XML Core Services zero day 
  • Critical Oracle Java Update – Oracle
    • Apple updates Java on same day – Apple
  • Adobe Coldfusion update  – Adobe
  • VMware hypervisor security updates  – VMware
  • US-CERT bulletin on 64-bit virtualization vulnerability  – US-Cert
  • Apple quietly changes security messaging – CRN
  • Flame and Stuxnet share some code  – Kaspersky Securelist
  • Flame handlers delete the malware – ComputerWorld
  • Father’s Day malware and spam campaigns  – Naked Security Blog
  • EXTRA: MySQL and MariaDB suffer serious password bypass vulnerability – The Register

— Corey Nachreiner, CISSP (@SecAdept)

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Filed Under: Security Bytes Tagged With: Adobe, Apple, Father's Day, Flame, Flamer, Hacking, Malware, Microsoft, Oracle, Updates and patches, VMware

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  1. Miikka Kaarto says

    June 26, 2012 at 12:03 pm

    Good thorough explanations as always! Nice going Corey!

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