PC Security and Other Useful Information

The latest updates for Outlook have caused issues. Here are the details and some workarounds. Fixes or workarounds for recent issues in Outlook for Windows

Nice summary from the SANS ISC InfoSec Forums October 2017 Security Updates

This October Patch Tuesday, it seems that in some circumstances (e.g., WSUS), you may get both the “Delta” update as well as the “Cumulative” one. DO NOT INSTALL BOTH!! Best case scenario, you spend a lot more time downloading and installing. Worst case, you can brick the computer. https://marc.info/?l=patchmanagement&m=150007672922185&w=2

October 2017 Non-Security Office Update Release Listed below are the non-security updates we released on the Download Center and Microsoft Update. See the linked KB articles for more information.   Office 2013 Update for Microsoft Access 2013 (KB3172543) Update for Microsoft Excel 2013 (KB4011181) Update for Microsoft Office 2013 (KB4011148) Update for Microsoft Office 2013 […]

Security Mailer V17 #40 Apple patches 0-day vulnerabilities Cisco Security Advisories Open Source patches for Dsnmasq new versions of Apache and Apache Tomcat Linux updates Microsoft Update Revisions Non-Security updates for Office General Security entry

Security Alert: User Info Breach For once, a good, timely response: Timeline Of Events: Thursday, October 5, 2017 at 4:18 PM PDT, we were contacted by an independent security researcher, who informed us that the Disqus data may be exposed. Thursday, October 5, 2017 at 4:56PM PDT we obtained the exposed data and immediately began to […]

Cisco has released updates to address vulnerabilities affecting multiple products. A remote attacker could exploit some of these vulnerabilities to cause a denial-of-service condition. US-CERT encourages users and administrators to review the following Cisco Security Advisories and apply the necessary updates: Adaptive Security Appliance Software Direct Authentication Denial-of-Service Vulnerability cisco-sa-20171004-asa(link is external) Firepower Detection Engine IPv6 […]