Patch/Configuration Management, Vulnerability Management

Chrome most updated browser

May 7, 2009

Users who surf the web with Google Chrome are more likely to be running the latest browser version compared to Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari and Opera users, according to a new study from researchers at Google Switzerland and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. Ninety-seven percent of Chrome users ran the latest version three weeks after its release, found the study, which attributed the high marks to Chrome's silent-update mechanism, which does not allow users to disable automatic updates. Firefox was second best at 85 percent, followed by Safari (53 percent) and Opera (24 percent). Internet Explorer was not analyzed. — DK

Dan Kaplan

Vulnerability Management

Most online Exchange Servers vulnerable to ProxyLogon still not remediated

SC StaffJanuary 24, 2025

Such lagging vulnerability remediation for ProxyLogon significantly contrasts patching activities for a pair of Ivanti flaws also leveraged in Salt Typhoon attacks, tracked as CVE-2023-46805 and CVE-2024-21887, which have been addressed in over 92% of affected Ivanti devices, findings from Tenable revealed.

Vulnerability Management

Ivanti CSA exploit chains examined in joint CISA, FBI advisory

SC StaffJanuary 23, 2025

Attacks with the chained vulnerabilities have been thwarted by three organizations, with the first preventing compromise following sysadmin identification of suspicious user accounts and the second averting the breach after an endpoint protection platform detected web shell-creating base64-encoded scripts, according to a joint CISA and FBI advisory.

Vulnerability Management

High-severity flaw in file archiver 7-Zip requires manual update

Laura FrenchJanuary 22, 2025

The vulnerability could enable attackers to use nested archives to bypass Windows security warnings.

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