Patch Tuesday

Rise of the Cybercriminal Ever watch the end of year “World’s dumbest criminals?” You know the ones: the handsome gentleman caught on camera robbing a convenience store while his sidekick fills out a lottery form complete with name and address....

Are You Lost in the IT Wild? If you aren’t patching your third-party vulnerabilities, your business, your assets, your sales, are just that…. vulnerable. Adobe’s Flash has had a tough month.In October we’ve seen two different critical patches released to...

Add Some Layers... To Your Security Grab your hot chocolate and bundle up: it's time to stay inside and catch up on the latest Microsoft updates. On this day of December, Microsoft sent to us … 12 bulletins. The holiday...

Old School Macros Finally Get Blocked Today Microsoft have released 14 bulletins in total of which 6 are rated Critical and 8 are rated Important. Last week Microsoft also released 25 KB updates covering Office version 2010, 2013 and 2016....

Major Changes Ahead for Patch Tuesday Today Microsoft have released 10 bulletins in total of which 5 are rated Critical, 4 are rated Important and a single is rated Moderate. Our clients need to be aware of a change in...

In this month’s patch updates from Microsoft there’s a total of 11 bulletins - four Critical and seven Important - covering 26 separate vulnerabilities. "We’re going to look at each of the four Critical updates in turn", says Robert Brown,...

Each month I’ll be offering insight into Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday updates, giving advice on which are the most serious vulnerabilities and how to prioritize them. Microsoft rates it’s own vulnerabilities internally, so whilst the ratings can give a good idea...

MSPs have the opportunity to position themselves as the authority on patch management for their customers, both in terms of making the best use of time available and patch prioritization. Downtime. One word to strike fear into the hearts of even...

As we enter another year and another Patch Tuesday, we see that Microsoft has now made the patch notifications that little bit harder for the average customer, by stopping the Advance Notification Service (ANS). Along with the regular Patch Tuesday...

Questions need to be asked of Patch Tuesday and Microsoft's approach to it, says Robert Brown. SC Magazine  |  Dec 17, 2014 The next Patch Tuesday, Microsoft's usual day to issue security updates for its software, is looming again. It...