Neowin News Feed for: Patching

Revised Android partner agreements may improve regularity of security patching by OEMs

Boyd Chan — Sat, 12 May 2018 05:54:01 +0000

Despite Android security patches being released monthly, OEMs may not update their devices at the same rate. Now, Google is baking security patching into agreements with OEMs to improve the situation. Read more...

Google is making the size of app updates smaller by up to 90%

Usama Jawad — Wed, 07 Dec 2016 07:32:01 +0000

Google has introduced a new compression technique, named "File-by-File patching", which reduces the size of app updates by 65% on average, and up to 90% in some cases. Read more...

Black Hat: Apple lags behind Microsoft in patching security

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 12:24:29 +0000

Apple's teasing commercials that imply its software is safer than Microsoft's may not quite match the facts, according to new research revealed at the Black Hat conference on Thursday. Researchers from the Swiss Federal... Read more...

Microsoft better at patching XP than Vista?

Daniel Fleshbourne — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 13:26:50 +0000

A Microsoft security executive released data Thursday showing that, six months after shipping Windows Vista, his company has left more publicly disclosed Vista bugs unpatched than it did with Windows XP. In total, Microsoft has... Read more...

Microsoft Ready to Release Patching Tool

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 21 Apr 2005 09:01:45 +0000

After several delays, Microsoft is set to deliver in June the Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) patching tool and the Microsoft Update (MU) software patching service, a company executive says. Both MU and WSUS were... Read more...

Microsoft to Help Users Prep for Patching

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 05 Nov 2004 10:24:55 +0000

Microsoft will give customers advance notice of its monthly security updates in an effort to help them prepare to install related software patches, the company announced today. Starting this month, Microsoft will publish on its... Read more...

Too Much Demand for Too Few Patching Servers

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 15 Apr 2004 10:43:03 +0000

It sounded like a good idea: Instead of dribbling out a fix here and a patch there, release all your security fixes once a month, in a few, fairly easily digestible bundles. But with more... Read more...

Who's Patching Open Source? - Part 2

Thu, 15 Jan 2004 21:51:12 +0000

Part 1 of this two-part series addresses the special challenges inherent in fixing problems as they arise in open-source software. Part 2 takes a look at some potential solutions. Companies that provide third-party support for... Read more...

'Open source' IE patch withdrawn for further patching

Sun, 21 Dec 2003 02:02:46 +0000

The third-party 'open source' patch for Internet Explorer that we told you about earlier today, contains more than a few potentially nasty surprises. As we noted, German tech site Heise had already warned of dangerous... Read more...

Symantec tackles patchwork approach to patching

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 20 Oct 2003 15:08:55 +0000

Symantec is releasing a new version of its Ghost software for managing PCs that's designed to let information technology administrators apply patches en masse. Ghost 8.0, officially coming out Monday, tries to eliminate much of... Read more...