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Bloated Patch Tuesday brings fix for nasty Word/RTF/Net vulnerability

Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2017 04:16:00 -0700

Microsoft on Tuesday released 259 individual security patches, covering 82 security holes (counting by CVE number). You may feel rushed to apply those patches, particularly when you hear about a really bad vulnerability involving Word, RTF, and the .NET Framework. The facts are a little less alarmist.

Here’s a quick overview. The SANS Internet Storm Center has its usual handy list of CVEs and whether there are any known exploits. Martin Brinkmann at Ghacks stacks them up this way:

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Ayuda! (Help!) Equifax Has My Data!

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2017 22:02:49 +0000

Equifax last week disclosed a historic breach involving Social Security numbers and other sensitive data on as many as 143 million Americans. The company said the breach also impacted an undisclosed number of people in Canada and the United Kingdom. But the official list of victim countries may not yet be complete: According to information […]

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