Patch Tuesday Not Too Taxing For IT This Month, Despite Heavy Patch Count
April 9th, 2013
It’s another heavy month of patches this month from Microsoft. There are 9 bulletins, with 2 critical and 7 important. While 9 may seem like a lot, there are a few pieces of good news this month. First, there are only 2 critical bulletins and most of the patches are rated important. Second, most of [...]
No Luck o’ the Irish for IT this St. Patty’s Day
March 12th, 2013
IT admins can’t seem to catch a break this year. First, the never ending stream of Java issues that has kept folks on their toes since January. Now they’ve got another busy month of patches ahead of them, with 7 total patches from Microsoft, 4 of which are critical. However, once again the issues outside of Microsoft [...]
No Love for IT This Valentine’s Day
February 12th, 2013
It’s going to be a rough Valentine’s Day for many IT admins this month. With ongoing issues with Java and 12 bulletins from Microsoft, including 5 critical issues and many restarts, it’s going to be a very disruptive Patch Tuesday. It’s disturbing to note how many different Microsoft platforms are critically affected this month. Everything [...]
Light Patch Tuesday From Microsoft this September
September 11th, 2012
Is this September’s light Patch Tuesday a reflection of the maturity of Microsoft’s secure coding initiatives? One can only hope… Some vendors scrambled with repeated emergency patches last week just days apart and others seemed to just shrug off multiple day zero vulnerabilities. To the delight of IT pros everywhere though, Microsoft has given us [...]
Déjà Vu, Apple Dangerously Out Of Sync With Oracle Patch
September 10th, 2012
Back in March of this year Apple users were left woefully exposed when Apple fell out of sync with Oracle on Java patching. The issue led to some 600,000 Apple users being infected with the Flashback Trojan. The fix for Java had been provided by Oracle back in February and the delay in providing the patch to their users is credited with the rapid high infection rate of Flashback among Apple users.
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 [...]
How the Grinch Stole Christmas – with an Adobe Zero Day
December 6th, 2011
Yet another dangerous Adobe Zero Day in the wild Adobe has posted a Security Advisory for a Day Zero vulnerability that is currently actively targeting Adobe Reader 9.4.6 on the Windows platform. According to the advisory, the vulnerability (CVE-2011-2462) will be addressed first on the current target platform the week of December 12 and, because the [...]
Microsoft’s Ugly Patch Tuesday
April 12th, 2011
No matter how you look at it, it’s an ugly Patch Tuesday this month. There are 17 bulletins this month and over half of them, 9, are critical and we are seeing 64 patches in total. All but two provide for remote code execution. We are well into a new year and things have not [...]
July 2010 Patch Tuesday Security Briefing
July 14th, 2010
Microsoft announced that they have released four security bulletins to address five separate current vulnerabilities. Especially concerning this month is the fact that all three bulletins rated “critical” also rate a “1” on Microsoft’s exploitability index (with MS10-042 addressing a vulnerability that is actively being exploited.) Additionally, MS10-043 requires a reboot and affects Windows Server [...]
A Double Whammy Patch Tuesday from Microsoft and Oracle
July 13th, 2010
Microsoft announced that they have released four security bulletins to address five separate current vulnerabilities. Especially concerning this month is the fact that all three bulletins rated “critical” also rate a “1” on Microsoft’s exploitability index (with MS10-042 addressing a vulnerability that is actively being exploited.) Additionally, MS10-043 requires a reboot and affects Windows Server [...]
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