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Month: July 2019

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Delivering major enhancements in Windows Defender Application Control with the Windows 10 May 2019 Update

Credit to Author: Eric Avena| Date: Mon, 01 Jul 2019 16:25:25 +0000

With the Windows 10 May 2019 Update we delivered several important features for Windows Defender Application Control. Our focus for this release was responding to some longstanding feedback on manageability improvements. We’re excited to introduce new capabilities in Windows Defender Application Control.

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More fantastic test results for Sophos Intercept X!

Credit to Author: Seth Geftic| Date: Mon, 01 Jul 2019 15:26:34 +0000

Sophos Intercept X continues to perform well in third party tests, and we thought we&#8217;d share a few recent results. Those results include a 100% total accuracy rating by SE Labs, a #1 ranking by AV-Comparatives for malware protection, and an Editors&#8217; Choice designation by PC Magazine. Our Mac protection also joins in on the [&#8230;]<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/4ncNivQjUE8″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Message to IT: Trusting Apple and Google for mobile app security is career suicide

Credit to Author: Evan Schuman| Date: Mon, 01 Jul 2019 05:47:00 -0700

Ready for the mobile security news that IT doesn’t want to hear about but needs to? When security firm Positive Technologies started pen-testing various mobile apps, security holes were rampant.

We’ll plunge into the details momentarily, but here’s the upshot: “High-risk vulnerabilities were found in 38 percent of mobile applications for iOS and in 43 percent of Android applications” and “most cases are caused by weaknesses in security mechanisms — 74 percent and 57 percent for iOS and Android apps, respectively, and 42 percent for server-side components — because such vulnerabilities creep in during the design stage, fixing them requires significant changes to code.”

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Microsoft Patch Alert: The Windows patching heavens buzz with silver bullets

Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Mon, 01 Jul 2019 04:36:00 -0700

How many bugs could a WinPatcher patch, if a WinPatcher could patch bugs?

Ends up that June’s one of the buggiest patching months in recent memory – lots of pesky little critters, and the ones acknowledged by Microsoft led to even more patches later in the month.

In June, we saw eight single-purpose Windows patches whose sole mission is to fix bugs introduced in earlier Windows patches. I call them silver bullets – all they do is fix earlier screw-ups. If you install security patches only, these eight have to be installed manually to fix the bugs introduced earlier. It’s a congenital defect in the patching regimen – bugs introduced by security patches get fixed by non-security “optional” patches, while waiting for the next month’s cumulative updates to roll around.

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