Neowin News Feed for: Patch

USB Flash drive hack foiled by new Microsoft security patch

Vlad Dudau — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 10:17:48 +0000

Microsoft released security patches yesterday. One of the fixes relates to USB drives. A hacker could gain unauthorized access to a machine just by using a specially formatted USB drive. Read more...

After 6 months, Apple finally patches App Store vulnerability

Max Slater-Robins — Sun, 10 Mar 2013 12:19:13 +0000

Apple has plugged a gap in their App Store security, 6 months after a Google security researcher alerted them to the problem which could allow hackers access to sensitive information. Read more...

Emergency patch issued for Adobe Flash

Tim Schiesser — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 06:24:53 +0000

Adobe has issued an emergency, unscheduled patch for Adobe Flash, which addresses certain vulnerabilities affecting Windows and Mac OS X users that are currently being exploited in the wild Read more...

Microsoft to plug critical IE vulnerability tomorrow with an out-of-band patch

Brad Sams — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 00:16:46 +0000

Microsoft has stated that they will be releasing an out of band patch to plug up a critical exploit that affects IE 6 - 8 and could allow for remote code execution; the patch will arrive on January 14 Read more...

Windows 7 Media Center fixit for "weak signal" error message

Steven Parker — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 10:39:04 +0100

Are you getting an error message in Media Center for Windows 7 for some channels? Microsoft has released a Fixit patch to remedy the issue, grab it here. Read more...

New Diablo III patch makes some gameplay changes

John Callaham — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 23:24:43 +0100

A new client patch for Diablo III has been released which makes a number of gameplay changes to the action-RPG, including reducing the difficulty level for Inferno players in acts 2-4. Read more...

Crysis 2 PC DirectX 11 patches released; map editor Wednesday

John Callaham — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 19:18:44 +0100

As promised, Crytek has finally allowed PC gamers with high end gaming rigs to amp up the graphical goodness on the game developer's recent sci-fi shooter Crysis 2. The developer has release three separate files... Read more...

Adobe fixes critical vulnerability in Acrobat and Reader as exploits begin

Denis Wong — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 11:36:21 +0100

Adobe has released updates to Adobe Acrobat and Reader, fixing a critical vulnerability discovered last week in Adobe Flash 10.2. The vulnerability, which has since been fixed in a Flash update, could potentially allow an... Read more...

Microsoft warns of critical unpatched Windows Shell vulnerability

Tom Warren — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 10:30:04 +0100

Microsoft issued a security bulletin on Friday to warn customers of a 0-day exploit involving the Windows Shell. The vulnerability is caused due to an error in Windows Shell when parsing shortcuts (.lnk). The flaw can... Read more...

Microsoft: Malware may cause BSOD patch issue

Tom Warren — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 18:49:08 +0000

Microsoft officials issued a status update on Friday for the BSOD patch issue affecting a limited amount of users. Jerry Bryant, Sr. Security Communcations Manager at Microsoft, confirmed the company was continuing their investigations into... Read more...

Microsoft investigating claims of wide spread BSODs due to recent patch [Update]

Brad Sams — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 17:32:13 +0000

On Tuesday, Microsoft released a patch (KB977165) for Windows that seems to be causing a lot of headaches for users of Windows XP. ComputerWorld claim that numerous reports have been hitting Microsoft’s help forums by... Read more...

Internet Explorer out of band patch released, update now

Tom Warren — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 17:39:15 +0000

Microsoft has issued security hot-fixes to patch a security vulnerability in Internet Explorer which saw Google fall victim to some targeted and sophisticated attacks recently. The vulnerability was unveiled when Google went public that they were... Read more...

Internet Explorer vulnerability patch due tomorrow

Andrew Lyle — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 19:08:49 +0000

As Neowin reported yesterday, the out-of-band security vulnerability patch will be released on January 21, 2010. The security patch will address a remote code execution hole found in Internet Explorer 6, 7 and 8.... Read more...

O2: Apple to patch iPhone SMS flaw this Saturday

Tom Warren — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 16:54:34 +0100

British network operator O2 has issued a statement to the BBC confirming that Apple will fix a security issue with the iPhone on Saturday via iTunes. Researchers revealed yesterday that they had discovered a flaw... Read more...

Critical security patch for IE released, Win 7 RC affected

Tom Warren — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 18:21:00 +0100

Microsoft has released an out of band security patch (MS09-034) to fix remote exploits in Internet Explorer. This security update is rated Critical for the following versions of Internet Explorer: Internet Explorer 5.01, running on... Read more...

Patch coming for Mass Effect PC

Sam Symons — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 22:08:18 +0000

BioWare has announced on their forums that a patch is on the way for the PC version of Mass Effect. Currently there is no information available, but Chris Priestly, Community Coordinator for BioWare, has said... Read more...

Windows 7 public beta released, remember to patch

Tom Warren — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 15:09:35 +0000

Update 2: We have now posted a method for acquiring a valid key too. Update: It appears that Microsoft.com is suffering badly with "server too busy" messages. The Windows Team Blog have confirmed MS... Read more...

Microsoft preps emergency IE patch for Wednesday release

Chakkaradeep Chandran — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 05:30:27 +0000

Microsoft Corp. announced today that it will issue an emergency patch tomorrow to quash a critical Internet Explorer bug that attackers have been exploiting for more than a week. The advance warning came less than... Read more...

Patch Tuesday for December 2008

Andrew Lyle — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 18:31:27 +0000

Microsoft will release another 8 patches this coming Tuesday December 9 to block Remote Code Execution in a number of its own software, including Windows, Office, Internet Explorer, and Visual Basic. 6 are labeled... Read more...

Patch Tuesday: Critical Windows and Office fixes coming

Andrew Lyle — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 02:42:38 +0000

Microsoft is releasing two patches on Tuesday, November 11, to fix some critical security holes in both its operating system, and Microsoft Office. One has been given a rating of Critical, where XML can be... Read more...