• August 21, 2019

    August Third-Party Patches & Security Updates Which third-party patches should you prioritize? VideoLAN has released an update this week to resolve two high-risk vulnerabilities in the VLC media player application. The discovered vulnerabilities allow an attacker to manipulate the .MKV...

  • July 11, 2019

    July Third-Party Security Updates Latest Third-Party Updates This month there are several notable third-party updates that have been released. The vendors include Adobe, Foxit, GlavSoft LLC., Microsoft (Skype), and Mozilla. How are you deploying third-party security updates? It’s time to...

  • July 9, 2019

    July Patch Tuesday: Stop Zero-Day Exploits Patch Tuesday Release Microsoft have released 78 patches today covering IE, Edge, ChakraCore, Windows and Office.p There are 15 rated Critical and 62 Important with only 1 rated Moderate. Urgent: Public and Exploited There are a total of 8 vulnerabilities in this...

  • June 11, 2019

    June Patch Tuesday: WSUS Needs Your Attention Patch Tuesday Release Microsoft have released 91 patches today covering IE, Edge, ChakraCore, Skype, Windows and Office. There are 21 rated Critical and 66 Important, which so far this year is the largest...

  • May 15, 2019

    Not Your Usual Patch Tuesday: May Updates Microsoft has released a security fix for several unsupported versions of Windows, including Windows XP and Windows Server 2003. If you are a user of either of those systems, you need to patch...

  • April 18, 2019

    Sophos and Windows 7 Updates Incompatible Sophos Endpoint Antivirus is a hybrid antivirus solution that provides businesses protection against malware, viruses and offers a remote management tool. Regrettably, there are reports that it is not compatible with the latest Windows...

  • April 17, 2019

    Thank You For Not Patching Nearly 60% of organizations that suffered a data breach in the past two years cite as the culprit a known vulnerability for which they had not yet patched. Half of organizations in a new Ponemon...

  • April 13, 2019

    Microsoft Patch Tuesday Updates Are Freezing Windows What's occurring and which versions are affected? Microsoft has confirmed that computers are freezing during the latest "Patch Tuesday" update process. However, the issue could be more prevalent than Microsoft is stating. Microsoft...

  • April 9, 2019

    April Patch Tuesday: Stop Active Exploits Microsoft have released 74 patches today covering IE, Edge, Exchange, Windows and Office. There are 13 rated Critical and 61 are Important. In this release there are no Moderate or Low in severity but...

  • March 12, 2019

    March Patch Tuesday: Eliminate the Exploits Microsoft has released 64 patches today covering IE, Edge, Exchange, Windows and Office. There are 17 rated Critical, 45 rated Important, 1 is rated Moderate and 1 is rated Low in severity—this is much less than last month’s release of over 80...