Just shy of the two year anniversary of when a McAfee antivirus definition contained a false positive that crippled Windows XP systems around the world, it seems the company is at it again. A McAfee Knowledge Base article describes the issue DAT 6682 is having with McAfee security for certain email products. McAfee has confirmed that incremental DAT 6682 may trigger message … [Read more...]
Patch Tuesday for Microsoft and Adobe Reader/Acrobat
Patch Tuesday is always a little more interesting when Adobe's quarterly updates sync up with Microsoft's monthly updates. Today's particular updates also seem to bring some promising changes that will improve patching in the future. … [Read more...]
Adobe Flash Player 11.2 updates include a silent updater
Adobe Flash Player just updated earlier this month with an out-of-band patch but a new update today makes 11.2.202.228 available. On the older branch, Flash Player updated to 10.3.183.18. With the 10.3 update, Adobe is dropping support for Internet Explorer 6. Adobe Flash Player 11.2 also includes a new background updater for Adobe Flash Player, modeled after the way Flash … [Read more...]
Infographic: Your Personal Data Online
Check out this infographic for some facts about your personal data online and common sources of identity theft. You can check it out in full by clicking the image below: … [Read more...]
Out-of-band update available for Adobe Flash Player
The Google Security team alerted Adobe to two vulnerabilities in the Adobe Flash Player and Adobe has issued a security bulletin and priority 2 update. A priority 2 update means... This update resolves vulnerabilities in a product that has historically been at elevated risk. There are currently no known exploits. Based on previous experience, we do not anticipate exploits are … [Read more...]