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....
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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...
April 20, 2015
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,...
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March 13, 2015
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...
February 12, 2015
This month’s Patch Tuesday is a bit of an interesting one... MS15-011 affects all supported editions of Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows 8, Windows Server 2012, Windows RT, Windows 8.1,...
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...
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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...
October 16, 2014
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...
