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Adobe gives date for critical out-of-band PDF patch

...its Reader and Acrobat PDF software. The company has brought forward the critical patches from a planned release date of 12 October to Tuesday, 5... Read more

1 October, 2010 by Tom Espiner

eEye issues temporary patch for Windows cursor flaw

Stop-gap fix arrives as hackers spread cursor exploit Read more

2 April, 2007 by Scott McKenzie

Microsoft rushes out fix for cursor flaw

Microsoft is issuing an early patch for a flaw that emerged late last week, and was exploited almost immediately Read more

2 April, 2007 by Ina Fried

Patches released for 'critical' Windows flaws

The 'arms race' with those writing malicious code continues as Microsoft issues fixes for serious vulnerabilities in Windows Read more

14 July, 2004 by Ed Frauenheim and Ina Fried

Microsoft releases critical patches for XP

Microsoft on Tuesday released two critical patches for its Windows operating system, but a patch for underlying security... Read more

12 January, 2005 by Dawn Kawamoto

Critical patches issued for Office, Windows

Microsoft has released nine patches in this month's Patch Tuesday, many of them related to ActiveX controls Read more

12 August, 2009 by Ina Fried

Microsoft releases six critical patches

'Patch Tuesday' has brought fixes for 11 vulnerabilities, many affecting Office and Internet Information Services Read more

13 February, 2008 by Robert Vamosi and Tom Espiner

Adobe and Sun release critical patches

Security company F-Secure has warned IT professionals to patch critical flaws in Flash Player and the Java Runtime Environment Read more

16 July, 2007 by Tom Espiner

Microsoft issues critical patches

Software giant has released six patches, of which four are critical, to fix 15 flaws in programs including Vista, Internet Explorer and Office Read more

13 June, 2007 by Robert Vamosi

Microsoft to release four critical patches

Software giant plans to issue fixes next week for vulnerabilities in Windows Mail, Internet Explorer and Windows XP Read more

8 June, 2007 by Dawn Kawamoto

Microsoft issues critical patches

Exchange servers and computers running the Flash player are at risk of remote code execution attacks without the update Read more

10 May, 2006 by Dawn Kawamoto

Oracle issues critical patches

Patches fixing over 50 flaws, including some in PeopleSoft products, have been released by the database giant Read more

14 April, 2005 by Ed Frauenheim

Microsoft releases critical patches

April's patches include five with the gargantuan software firm's highest security rating, and cover Office, IE, MSN Messenger, Exchange Server and Windows Read more

13 April, 2005 by Ina Fried

PC survival time 'down to 20 minutes'

...smaller." The main issue, said SANS, is that the time to download critical patches now commonly exceeds this survival time. Part of the problem, say... Read more

17 August, 2004 by Matt Loney

Microsoft's latest patches: What you need to know

Redmond recently released some 'critical' patches - we take a closer look at what they are and how... Read more

14 January, 2005 by John McCormick

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