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Patching discrepancy between supported Windows versions puts users at risk

09

Oct

2017

Security improvements should be a welcome addition to all software, but if they are not also simultaneously backported into its older and still supported versions, they can put many users at risk. According to Google Project Zero researcher Mateusz Jurczyk, Microsoft is leaving a huge number of users open to attack by failing to pushing […]

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Is your Mac software secure but firmware vulnerable?

29

Sep

2017

Mac users who have updated to the latest OS version or have downloaded and implemented the most recent security update may not be as secure as they originally thought, Duo Security researchers have found. That’s because many of them did not receive the newest firmware along with OS and software updates. EFI firmware (Intel’s implementation […]

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Google: Half of Android devices haven’t been patched in a year or more

24

Mar

2017

Google engineers yesterday acknowledged that half of all Android devices had not received a security update in the past year, even as they argued that the firm has made progress in streamlining the open-source operating system’s patching process. “About half of devices in use at the end of 2016 had not received a platform security […]

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