If you unwrapped a new smartphone during the holidays, one of the first things you should do is make sure its software is up ...

For the almost 40 years that I’ve written about personal tech, I’ve given consistent advice to folks who ask whether and when they should upgrade their software — particularly device operating systems ...

Keeping systems secure without jeopardizing reliability, productivity or customer trust is a high-stakes responsibility for IT teams. Reactive or ad hoc patching can unintentionally increase risk by ...

The most recent December update for Android phones is available now, and this patch specifically should take priority for ...

Critical updates to IE and Windows, make for an urgent May Patch Tuesday With 79 reported CVE vulnerability entries and two advisories from Microsoft, this is a big update for Windows this month. With ...

This mistake taught me that ignoring software updates didn’t preserve my system; it gradually undermined it. I have come to accept that obsolescence is simply a reality of the digital age. It's better ...

Addressing the ongoing patch management problem requires more finessing, especially to protect the software supply chain. The US National Institute of Standards and ...

Google publishes a monthly Android Security Bulletin that publicly lays out what it has fixed in the latest Android update.

While many of us still fondly remember those old CRT TVs, they can't even be compared to the smart, high-definition flat screens we use today. Back then, a TV was basically a cathode-ray tube with a ...