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News about patch management

• Oracle pulls blog post critical of security vendors, customers

  Oracle's head of security advised customers not to submit bug reports from third-party security analysis tools and services

• Critical BIND denial-of-service flaw could disrupt large portions of the Internet

  The flaw could be exploited remotely to crash DNS servers by sending them a single packet

• WordPress gets patch for critical XSS flaw

  WordPress 4.2.3 fixes a cross-site scripting flaw that could be used to compromise websites

• Oracle fixes zero-day Java flaw and over 190 other vulnerabilities

  Users should update Java as soon as possible because attackers are already taking advantage of at least one vulnerability

• Survey: Aussie businesses love their IT departments

  But we also lead the world on outsourcing IT

• VMware patches vulnerabilities in Workstation, Player, Fusion and Horizon View Client

  The flaws could lead to code execution, privilege escalation and denial-of-service