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Apple’s April 2018 Patches – Daily Security Byte

April 27, 2018 By Corey Nachreiner

Apple released a bunch of software updates for a few of their popular operating systems. The updates fix many  security flaws in MacOS, iOS, and Safari, the worst of which allows an application to elevate its privilege on your computer. Watch the quick video below for more color, and make sure you update your apple products as soon as you can (or let the auto-updater do its … [Read more...]

April 2018 Patch Day – Daily Security Byte

April 12, 2018 By Corey Nachreiner

Every month, Microsoft releases a bunch of security updates on the second Tuesday of the month. In April, their updates fix well over 60 vulnerabilities in all of their most popular software packages. Watch the video belwo for a brief summary of the updates, and be sure to deploy the patches as soon as you can. Show note: As you can tell from this video, I'll shoot many of … [Read more...]

Microsoft MMPE Vulnerable – Daily Security Byte

April 9, 2018 By Corey Nachreiner

Microsoft recently released an out of cycle update to fix a critical flaw in the Microsoft Malware Protection Engine (MMPE). Due to a vulnerability in an open source archive package, a Google research found that by sending a maliciously crafted file to a computer running MMPE, you can exploit this flaw to execute code and gain complete control of computers running unpatched … [Read more...]

Characters Crash Macs – Daily Security Byte

February 25, 2018 By Corey Nachreiner

Last week, an Italian blog found an iOS vulnerability that allowed a special Indian character to crash your Messenger app. Turns out this flaw, which involves Telugu script, affects all of Apple's operating systems. This week, Apple released updates to fix this flaw. Watch the video for a few more details and an example, and be sure to get the updates if you are an Apple … [Read more...]

Feb. 2018 Patch Day – Daily Security Byte

February 20, 2018 By Corey Nachreiner

By now you're probably extremely used to Microsoft and Adobe's cyclical Patch Day on the second Tuesday of each month. However, familiarity is no excuse for carelessness. Even if it seems never-ending, patching is one of the easiest things you can do to improve your organization's security. Watch the video below for a quick summary of the updates this month, and go get the ones … [Read more...]

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