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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....

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...

Microsoft Releases Patch to Address Active Exploit After learning about it from Google, Microsoft has moved to fix CVE-2018-8653. This flaw in Internet Explorer is being actively exploited in the wild. According to the Microsoft release, this remote code execution...

Logitech's Logic Called Into Question On December 11, Google’s Project Zero disclosed a vulnerability in Logitech’s Options application. It seems that the application opened a port (10134) to simplify client-server communication. However, this also means that authentication steps would be...

Issue-Plagued October Update is Available…again. After being publicly pulled twice, Microsoft is tentatively releasing Windows 10 version 1809 again. To be able to deploy this update now, one would have to manually check systems through Windows Update. It will not...

Former Equifax CEO Blames One Employee for Massive Hack After over a year of investigation, the U.S. House of Representatives Oversight and Government Reform Committee have released their report on the Equifax data breach. Their report is scathing, drawing immediate...