• January 11, 2017

    New year, new steer for Microsoft patching professionals Microsoft has released four bulletins in total of which two are rated Critical and 2 rated Important. Last week, they released 22 KB non-security updates for Office 2013 / 16 and an...

  • January 5, 2017

    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....

  • December 27, 2016

    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...

  • December 13, 2016

    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...

  • November 8, 2016

    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....

  • October 11, 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...

  • February 24, 2015

    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...

  • January 14, 2015

    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...

  • December 4, 2014

    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...

  • November 18, 2014

    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...