Patch Tuesday

The final Patch Tuesday of 2014 is upon us so with that in mind we thought we’d take a quick look at how the year stacks up. There were a total of 85 bulletins fixing 349 separate vulnerabilities in Microsoft’s products; 29...

It seems that it was only yesterday that patch/update Tuesday came and went, yet the next one is looming already. As an IT guy I actually look forward to seeing the types of vulnerabilities that have been discovered in Microsoft’s...

With 14 bulletins this month across almost 40 individual Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures [CVEs] means that November Patch Tuesday is fairly significant in size, with one particular update considered fairly urgent; MS14-066, which fixes a vulnerability in Schannel. The component...

Microsoft has issued critical patches for flaws relating to SSL/TLS encryption on Windows systems, as well as the Windows Object Linking and Embedding (OLE) protocol. On Tuesday morning, the Redmond technology giant issued a news bulletin announcing the release of...

After a relatively light Patch Tuesday last month, October’s security updates are back in full swing. With a total of eight security bulletins covering a total of 24 vulnerabilities discovered in Internet Explorer, Office, and the .Net framework, three of...

Microsoft’s patches this month are few, but no less important. In fact, critical in one case! We generally compare two sources of information to understand the impact of Microsoft’s patch updates – Microsoft’s own feed plus information from an independent...