Tag: Patching
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Why Is It So Difficult to Patch Web Applications?
Just as I sat down to write this blog—one year after the Apache Foundation announced the now infamous “Struts 2” flaw CVE 2017-5638 …
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Your Android phone says it’s fully patched, but is it really?
How do fully-maintained (i.e., patched) Android phones end up getting exploited? Searching for an answer to that question spurred security …
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Your Android phone says it’s fully patched, but is it?
How do fully-maintained (i.e., patched) Android phones end up getting exploited? Searching for an answer to that question spurred security …
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Security teams are under resourced, overwhelmed by attackers
A new report conducted by the Ponemon Institute uncovered security’s “patching paradox” – hiring more people does not equal better …
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Intel Halts Spectre Patching for Some Chips
The long-running Spectre patching cycle took another turn this week after Intel revealed it won’t be updating all chip models affected by …
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How to close the security update gap
Security patching is hard and patch fatigue is real. So what can be done to make the process more simple, less disruptive, and more likely …
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Meltdown and Spectre will delay patching for most organizations
Complexity and challenges associated with the Spectre and Meltdown patches will result in companies delaying future patch rollouts, …
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Memcached DDoS Attacks Slow Down as Patching Ramps Up
Days after the largest distributed denial-of-service attack in internet history, the attack size of memcached DDoS attacks is now on the …
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Memcached DDoS Attacks Slow Down, As Patching Ramps Up
Days after the largest Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) in internet history, the attack size of memcached DDoS attacks is now on the …
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Rapid, Secure Patching: Tools and Methods
Generate enterprise-grade SSH keys and load them into an agent for control of all kinds of Linux hosts. Script the agent with the Parallel …
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Fallout from Rushed Patching for Meltdown, Spectre
Intel’s unusual advisory yesterday urging its customers and partners to refrain from applying some of its firmware patches for the …
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Meltdown, Spectre Patching Lags Thanks to AV Incompatibility
The race is on to patch machines against the Meltdown and Spectre CPU vulnerabilities, which affect nearly all operating systems and …
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