January 2019

Millions of PCs Are Running Outdated Versions of Popular Software 55% of all programs worldwide are out-of-date It is 2019, and millions of computers still either have at least one outdated application installed or run outdated operating systems, making themselves...

Latest Third-Party Updates This month there are several notable updates with CVSS ratings. Apple has released critical fixes for two of their OS platforms. Adobe and Foxit both have patches with high ratings. Prioritize these updates when securing your environment....

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The Next Upgrade Will Section Off 7GB of Storage Due sometime in March or April, the next Windows update will do something new. 1903 will section off and hold 7GB of drive space. This sectioning is being called “reserved storage”...

Microsoft Releases Fix for Patch Tuesday Blunder When Patch Tuesday rolled out earlier this month, it came with an unexpected problem. Two updates, KB4480970 and KB4480960, created network shares accessing errors. Patch deployment strategies had to be halted and the...

Microsoft’s monthly rollup causing network problems When Microsoft releases their monthly ‘Patch Tuesday’ rollup, the idea is to address vulnerabilities causing issues. But sometimes the release creates new issues. This month, that is what has happened. KB4480970 (Monthly Rollup) and...

Patch Tuesday Release: The Latest News Microsoft has released 49 security patches today. There are seven Critical severity patches in this release however almost half resolve a remote code execution issue. Eleven of the others are important remote code execution...

Adobe Releases Critical Updates for Reader and Acrobat Two out-of-band security updates have been released by Adobe, patching critical vulnerabilities in Acrobat and Reader. These updates effect both the Windows and macOS operating systems. The first vulnerability, CVE-2018-16011, is a...