Rob Brown

IT Systems Management toolsets are becoming increasingly more complex. Whether you have tried one single solution or are using multiple products for patching, remote control, software distribution and inventory, so much work goes in to just managing and maintaining these...

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...

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...

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...