Oracle Moves To Monthly Patch Schedule
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An alert posted on the company&#39;s Web site outlined the patches that should be posted to fix numerous security holes in a number of applications.
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No word on Word fixes, yet Microsoft issued seven patches on Tuesday - one more than expected - as part of its monthly Patch Tuesday update cycle. Three of the updates earn the dreaded rating of critical.â¦
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The company said Thursday that it will release security bulletins and accompanying patches for its products on 18 January, 12 April, 12 July and 18 October.
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Business software maker Oracle Corp. (ORCL.O: Quote, Profile, Research) on Friday said it had decided to move forward the release date of its fiscal second-quarter earnings to Monday, Dec.
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(InfoWorld) - After handling 19 sets of patches inÂ JulyÂ andÂ August, system administrators will catch a bit of a break next week when Microsoft Corp. is expected to release just three security updates for its Windows and Office products. On Thursday, Microsoft said that only one of these updates, for Office, is rated as critical. The updates will be released Tuesday in line with Microsoft's monthly patch release schedule. Microsoft'sÂ advance notification on the updatesÂ can be found at its Web site. The other two updates, which fix problems with Windows, are rated no higher than Important, meaning that user action would be required before an attack based on these flaws could succeed. As usual, Microsoft did not release any further details on the patches. That information will be divulged when the patches are made available Tuesday. But the company may be planning to patch aÂ recently reported flaw in its Word 2000 software. Earlier this week Symantec Corp. warned that the flaw was being exploited by attackers to run unauthorized software on a victim's computer. Â
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Software maker Oracle will soon start issuing security patches quarterly. This new patch schedule comes only months after the company said it would issue such security updates every month.
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A survey of Oracle Users Group attendees finds two-thirds have never applied the company's quarterly updates. Oracle set to release next update Tuesday.
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Oracle Corp. released security patches this week that plug several vulnerabilities reported last month in its database software and other products.
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Oracle Corp. urged customers to apply software patches it released in August because of the availability of malicious code that can exploit unpatched vulnerabilities in its software.
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Ilia Alshanetsky posts today about the proposed "Month of PHP bugs" that Stefan Esser is proposing:   It would be interesting to see what issues he discovers, hopefully most of them have already been reported to the PHP Security Team, in which case the upcoming 5.2.1 release will provide a resolution path for affected users.   Hopefully, as Ilia states, the bugs will not turn out to be zero-day vulnerabilities and will instead be smaller issues. Either way, a bug-fix patch will probably soon follow.   Either way, I have to look at this as a free security audit of PHP by someone with a clue about security and ultimately, in the long run it will only make PHP better, even if March is going to be rather busy.
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Oracle Corp. is finally bringing to the North American market its Oracle E-Business Suite Special Edition, a midmarket-aimed package of pre-installed, preconfigured software from its 11i suite of business applications.
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Oracle posts its third security update of the year, patching 45 vulnerabilities in its flagship database software and other products.
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Forty-five fixes out. One missing in action Oracle released 45 security patches on Tuesday as part of its latest quarterly patch update, one less than expected.â¦
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Oracle&#39;s new quarterly security-patch schedule departs from its monthly schedule, which Microsoft also uses. By George V. Hulme.
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NOVEMBER 18, 2004  - Oracle Corp. today announced that it is moving to a quarterly patch release schedule in response to user demands for a more predictable process for applying needed security fixes to the company&#39;s software.
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OCTOBER 15, 2004  - Microsoft Corp.&#39;s move to a monthly patch-release cycle one year ago this month has made it easier to install security updates for Windows and other products, IT managers said this week -- even as they were greeted with
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Microsoft has promised to give advance notice of its monthly security updates to customers to help them prepare to install related software patches.