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Blue screen of death: Microsoft removes a patch from distribution April 14th, 2013 - 07:34 am ET Microsoft recommends uninstalling a corrective security patch released during Patch Tuesday. It is behind some incidents including a BSoD with Windows 7.

Partial hack of Chrome OS: Google has paid out some of their Pi million March 20th, 2013 - 01:37 am ET Through their Pwnium 3 hacking competition which brings with it 3.14 million dollars in prizes, Google has paid a security hunter 40 000 dollars for his partial exploitation of ...

Flash Player: an urgent update and future protection for old versions of Office February 08th, 2013 - 09:10 am ET Adobe has published a corrective patch for two security vulnerabilities actively exploited in Flash Player. A future update will provide protection to older versions of Office.

Java: an update to be urgently applied February 04th, 2013 - 03:07 pm ET Oracle has released Java 7 Update 13 with around fifty security vulnerabilities that are actively exploited having been corrected.

Windows 8: critical updates planned November 12th, 2012 - 10:45 am ET The next Patch Tuesday will contain four critical updates – three of which concern Windows 8.

Internet Explorer: corrected in a few days September 19th, 2012 - 09:10 am ET Affected by a 0-day fault, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer will receive a corrective patch while an update is developed.

Microsoft: Duqu patched, bringing years total to 99 corrections December 14th, 2011 - 11:21 am ET The last Patch Tuesday for the year has corrected the Duqu vulnerability. A total of nineteen security faults have been corrected, although twenty were pre-announced, as the ...

Microsoft delivers a record patch Tuesday August 12th, 2010 - 09:10 am ET Microsoft has released August 2010’s patch Tuesday, with it being a record month for updates. Among the 14 security bulletins, 8 are critical while 4 are considered high ...

Flash Player: Security update and Gala for Mac OS X August 11th, 2010 - 09:15 am ET Adobe has updated their Flash Player to correct numerous security vulnerabilities. Mac users will also benefit from the addition of Gala to accelerate hardware.

Microsoft looking to avoid Windows BSoD April 16th, 2010 - 12:40 pm ET After misadventures with the blue screen of death and Windows XP users, Microsoft has added an additional layer of security to their Windows updates so as to avoid encountering ...