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May 9, 2017 20:28

Microsoft Patch Tuesday - May 2017

Today, Microsoft has release their monthly set of security updates designed to address vulnerabilities. This month's release addresses 56 vulnerabilities with 15 of them rated critical and 41 rated important. Impacted products include .NET, DirectX, Edge, Internet Explorer, O

April 11, 2017 23:11

Microsoft Patch Tuesday - April 2017

It’s that time again! Today we bring you April’s Microsoft Patch Tuesday information. These fixed vulnerabilities affect Outlook, Edge, Internet Explorer, Hyper-V, .NET, and Scripting Engine. Bulletins Rated Critical CVE-2017-0106 outlines a vulnerability in Microsoft Word. It

March 14, 2017 17:26

Microsoft Patch Tuesday - March 2017

Following a sparse February patch Tuesday, today’s March release brings a bumper crop of fixed vulnerabilities: 17 bulletins covering 140 different vulnerabilities, 47 of which are rated as critical. The critical vulnerabilities affect Internet Explorer, Edge, Hyper-V, Windows PD

January 10, 2017 15:28

Microsoft Patch Tuesday - January 2017

Happy New Year to our readers! Today marks the first Patch Tuesday of 2017 with Microsoft releasing their monthly set of bulletins designed to address security vulnerabilities. This month's release is relatively light with 4 bulletins addressing 3 vulnerabilities. Two bulleti

December 13, 2016 15:00

Microsoft Patch Tuesday - December 2016

The final patch Tuesday of 2016 has arrived. Today, Microsoft has released their monthly set of security bulletins designed to address security vulnerabilities within their products. This month's release contains 12 bulletins addressing 48 vulnerabilities. Six bulletins are r

November 8, 2016 17:09

Microsoft Patch Tuesday - November 2016

Today, Microsoft has released their monthly set of security bulletins designed to address security vulnerabilities within their products. For a detailed explanaiton of each of the categories listed below, please go to https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/gg309177.aspx. T

October 11, 2016 16:57

Microsoft Patch Tuesday - October 2016

Patch Tuesday has once again arrived! Microsoft's monthly release of security bulletins to address vulnerabilities provides fixes for 37 newly disclosed security flaws. Today's release sees a total of 10 bulletins with five of the bulletins rated critical and address vuln

September 13, 2016 20:01

Microsoft Patch Tuesday - September 2016

This post was authored by Jaeson Schultz. Well it's Microsoft Patch Tuesday, again, and that must mean we are girding our systems against another round of security vulnerabilities. This month Microsoft has released fourteen (14) bulletins covering fifty (50) security vulnera

August 10, 2016 13:46

Vulnerability Spotlight: MS Edge/Windows PDF Library Arbitrary Code Execution Vulnerability Identified and Patched

Vulnerability discovered by Aleksandar Nikolic of Cisco Talos. Yesterday, Microsoft released its monthly set of security bulletins and patches for various flaws within currently supported products. Two of the bulletins in yesterday's release are rated critical and address CV