The final Patch Tuesday of the year is here. Just a week or two of wrestling around with updates, and then all you sysadmins out there can enjoy the holiday season assured of a job well done. For those of you who aren’t familiar with Patch Tuesday, here’s a quick summary.What is Patch Tuesday?Microsoft regularly releases […]
November’s Patch Tuesday comes with fixes for 74 vulnerabilities
For system admins who’ve been in their trade for a while, Patch Tuesday and the endless patching and updating that follows is something you’re likely familiar with. For those of you new to the trade, here’s a quick introduction.What is Patch Tuesday?It refers to the time of the month that Microsoft releases security and non-security […]
Microsoft Patch Tuesday August 2019: WannaCry-level “wormable” flaws patched
No matter how prepared you are, Patch Tuesday never fails to throw in a surprise. With the Microsoft Security Response Center’s warning note, “August 2019 Security Update includes fixes for wormable RCE vulnerabilities in Remote Desktop Services (RDS), affecting all in-support versions of Windows. These should be patched quickly,” arrives the highly anticipated Microsoft Patch […]
Microsoft Patch Tuesday updates for July 2019
The much awaited Microsoft Patch Tuesday updates for July 2019 are here. If you’re a sysadmin, you probably know what this means for you: a week full of testing and deploying updates and troubleshooting patch failures, and then another week or so of waiting for hotfixes to mend issues in patches that were already released […]
Microsoft Patch Tuesday June 2019: 88 vulnerabilities to fix, but how?
Every Patch Tuesday is a nightmare for IT admins, loading them with a bundle of updates, leaving them no respite for the rest of the week. This June Patch Tuesday is no exception, with a huge amount of patches released to address 88 vulnerabilities in supported Windows operating systems and related applications. Of these updates, […]
Microsoft Patch Tuesday updates for May 2019
Microsoft today released its May 2019 software updates to address a total of 79 vulnerabilities in its Windows operating systems and other products. Of these latest updates, 18 are rated critical. This month’s Patch Tuesday from Microsoft also addresses two vulnerabilities that are actively being exploited.Patch Tuesday updates for Microsoft productsThis month’s Patch Tuesday covers […]
Microsoft Patch Tuesday updates for March 2019
Microsoft has just released its March installment of Patch Tuesday updates to address 66 vulnerabilities in its applications. Of these 66 vulnerabilities, two are currently being exploited in the wild, 17 are critical, 45 are important, one is moderate, and one is low. This Patch Tuesday, Microsoft not only provides the patches, but also an […]
Microsoft Patch Tuesday updates for December 2018
Another month and another Patch Tuesday update from Microsoft. But this month, the buzz is all about a third-party patch from Adobe that addresses a zero-day vulnerability. This vulnerability (CVE-2018-15982) is rated critical since it’s being actively exploited in the wild. It’s said that this vulnerability allows a maliciously crafted Flash object to execute code […]
Microsoft Releases Advance Notification for Out-of-Band Release for September 2012
Microsoft released their advance notification for one Out-Of-Band Security Bulletin. Microsoft will release updates addressing Vulnerability in Internet Explorer could allow remote code execution as well as four other Critical-class remote code execution issues on 21 Sep 2012. Once the bulletin is released, the Patch Assessment team at Desktop Central will test all the patches pertaining to these bulletins and update their central patch database at the earliest
Microsoft Releases Advance Notification for September 2012 Patch Tuesday
Microsoft released their advance notification for September 2012 patch Tuesday.