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• Cisco releases 20 security updates impacting SD-WAN, Webex and more

  Multiple vulnerabilities were found in the Cisco Webex network recording player

• Google security patches aren't slowing down cloud services

  Alphabet's subsidiary said patches against the Spectre and Meltdown chipset were deployed last year

• Oracle releases 136 security patches for wide range of products

  The company has adopted the new CVSS 3.0 vulnerability rating system, resulting in a larger number of flaws rated as high and critical

• Google patches remote execution flaws in Android

  More holes have been found in Android's multimedia playback software

• Windows 10 gets its first set of security patches

  Microsoft's Patch Tuesday for August contains critical patches for Windows, Internet Explorer and Microsoft Office

• 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