When it comes to enterprise security, most often the platform used behind the company’s network is rarely a compelling argument, a report from a security company shows. From a regular user’s standpoint, iOS offers more security thanks to Apple’s controlled app distribution and limitations imposed to the operating system. On Continue Reading
Microsoft has released updates for critical flaws in Word, Office, and Internet Explorer, along with firmware updates for its Surface 2 tablet line. Microsoft said that the June edition of Patch Tuesday would address a total of 66 common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVE)–class vulns, most of them in Internet Explorer. Continue Reading
The Mozilla Firefox 30 browser does not include major new features, yet it does provide users with security fixes and some incremental updates. Released on June 10, Firefox 30 improves on the Firefox 29 browser, which debuted April 29 with the biggest user interface update for the open-source browser in Continue Reading
The OpenSSL team released a security update that fixes 6 vulnerabilities, two of which could be considered critical. The first one is an SSL/TLS MITM vulnerability (CVE-2014-0224). “An attacker using a carefully crafted handshake can force the use of weak keying material in OpenSSL SSL/TLS clients and servers. This can Continue Reading
Apache recently patched Tomcat, fixing a trio of information disclosure bugs and a denial of service bug in the open source web server and servlet container. The denial of service bug, discovered in February by David Jorm of the Red Hat Security Response Team, could have allowed an attacker to Continue Reading
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