On Oct. 9, 2003, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announced that the company would only issue security patches once a month to "reduce the burden...

by Paul Ducklin Thanks to the precise four-week length of February this year, last month’s coincidence of Firefox and Microsoft...

IT teams should prioritize the patching of two zero-day vulnerabilities, one in Microsoft Outlook's authentication mechanism and another that's a Mark of the Web...

by Paul Ducklin CAN WE STOP WITH THE “SOPHISTICATED” ALREADY? The birth of ENIAC. A “sophisticated attack” (someone got phished). A...

by Paul Ducklin Deciphering Microsoft’s official Update Guide web pages is not for the faint-hearted. Most of the information you need,...

by Paul Ducklin Samba, simply put, is a super-useful, mega-popular, open-source reimplementation of the networking protocols used in Microsoft Windows,...

by Paul Ducklin THE CRYPTO CRISIS THAT WASN’T Click-and-drag on the soundwaves below to skip to any point. You can also...

by Paul Ducklin As far as we can tell, there are a whopping 2874 items in this month’s Patch Tuesday...

by Paul Ducklin When we woke up this morning, our cybersecurity infofeed was awash with “news” that Apple had just...

by Paul Ducklin PWNING THE WINDOWS KERNEL Click-and-drag on the soundwaves below to skip to any point. You can also listen...

by Paul Ducklin Another month, another Microsoft Patch Tuesday, another 48 patches, another two zero-days… …and an astonishing tale about a...

Microsoft has released fixes for 48 new vulnerabilities across its products, including one that attackers are actively exploiting and another that has been publicly...