A Bit of May Madness from Microsoft for May 2012 Patch Tuesday
May 8th, 2012
The disruptive restarts and the wide range of platforms impacted by May’s bulletins will have IT teams scrambling to accomplish their flaw remediation tasks this month. Combine those with the workload from Oracle and others and many security pros may unfortunately not get a break this Memorial Day. We have 7 bulletins this month; 3 [...]
In Life There are Two Certainties – Taxes and Patches
April 10th, 2012
As we approach April 15, we get to deal with both filing our income taxes and a taxing bunch of patches from Microsoft and others. While the overall number of patches from Microsoft is light, we have 4 critical patches along with two important ones. They impact a wide array of platforms and applications including [...]
UPDATE IT Gets its Own "Super Tuesday" from Microsoft
March 13th, 2012
Update: Working Exploit For MS12-020 Reportedly Now Available Russian blog SecurityLab posted an image from a Chinese web site that purports to be a screen shot of a working MS12-020 exploit able to run arbitrary code. As noted in the blog post patching MS12-020 is a very high priority for the enterprise. For those unable to [...]
More Love from Microsoft This February
February 14th, 2012
A relatively light Patch Tuesday this month from Microsoft with 9 bulletins, 4 of which are critical. IT continues to benefit from Microsoft’s security initiatives in 2012 with comparatively lower numbers year on year. Last February, we saw 12 security bulletins in all (3 of which were critical and 9 important). It’s interesting to note [...]
February 2012 Patch Tuesday Security Briefing
February 14th, 2012
Paul Henry, Security and Forensics Analyst for Lumension, discusses the impact of the February 2012 Patch Tuesday releases.
January 2012 Patch Tuesday Security Briefing
January 10th, 2012
Paul Henry, Security and Forensics Analyst for Lumension, discusses the impact of the January 2012 Patch Tuesday releases.
Microsoft Slays The Beast
January 10th, 2012
In the first Patch Tuesday of 2012, Microsoft has addressed 1 critical issue and 6 important. It’s interesting to note that despite all of the media hype over “The Beast”, attacks have simply never materialized and the issue has retained its “Important” classification from Microsoft. Overall, we saw a reduction in the number of critical [...]
Some Holiday Cheer from Microsoft
December 13th, 2011
Think the 12 Days of Christmas jingle: On this Patch Tuesday before Christmas ….. Microsoft Gave to me ….. 3 critical patches… 10 important ones…and a patch for the Duqu vulnerability… We initially expected 14 bulletins for this December Patch Tuesday however the much awaited fix for “The Beast” SSL issue was not released today [...]
December 2011 Patch Tuesday Security Briefing
December 13th, 2011
Paul Henry, Security and Forensics Analyst for Lumension, discusses the impact of the December 2011 Patch Tuesday releases.
Microsoft Doesn’t Drop Any Turkeys This Patch Tuesday
November 8th, 2011
There may be a Black Friday this month, but there’s also a happy Tuesday from Microsoft with just 4 bulletins this period. Only one of the bulletins is critical; however its exploitability rating is only a 3 and Microsoft suggests it is not likely this patch will be used. The additional patches include 2 important [...]
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