Microsoft has released 16 new bulletins in the June 2011 edition of patch Tuesday. These 16 bulletins address 34 vulnerabilities. This is quite a large patch day and, to top it off, Microsoft was late in releasing the bulletins. The first batch of security bulletins that need immediate attention all have web browsing to a [...]
About Jason Miller
Jason Miller is the security and data team manager for Shavlik Technologies, St. Paul, MN. He leads a team that is responsible for monitoring current threats and vulnerabilities, providing patch management analysis and researching new protection methods through configuration management to help customers secure their network more effectively.
June 2011 Patch Tuesday Advanced Notification
Microsoft has released their advanced notification for the June 2011 edition of Patch Tuesday. Welcome back very large Patch Tuesdays! This month marks a Microsoft “heavy” security bulletin release month. As expected, we are also seeing Internet Explorer receiving security updates through the bi-monthly update. It is interesting to note there are two security bulletins [...]
May 2011 Patch Tuesday Advanced Notification
Microsoft has released their advanced notification for the May 2011 edition of Patch Tuesday. This Patch Tuesday marks a “light” Patch Tuesday as expected. Microsoft’s release cadence for security bulletins are typically heavy months followed by light months. With this month’s release, administrators can take a big sigh of relief after a record-breaking April Patch [...]
Spring Has Sprung, and so has the Microsoft Security Bulletin Count
Microsoft just released their Patch Tuesday Advanced Notification for April 2011. Microsoft plans to release 17 new security bulletins addressing 64 vulnerabilities. So far this year we have gotten off pretty easy from Microsoft Patch Tuesdays. However, the upcoming Patch Tuesday will be another day to remember. This month will tie the record for the [...]
March 2011 Patch Tuesday Overview
Microsoft has released three new security bulletins that address four vulnerabilities in the March 2011 version of Patch Tuesday. You may be asking why there are such a small number of bulletins being released this month. The low number of bulletins being released was expected as this is typically a light security bulletin release month [...]
February 2011 Patch Tuesday Overview
Microsoft has released 12 new bulletins addressing 22 vulnerabilities in the February 2011 edition of Patch Tuesday. Although 12 bulletins may now seem like a low number for Microsoft’s large release months, there are a couple of bulletins that need immediate attention. With two of the security bulletins, the exploit code has released publicly. MS11-003 [...]
December 2010 Patch Tuesday Overview
Microsoft has released 17 new security bulletins addressing 40 vulnerabilities in the December 2010 edition of patch Tuesday. This is yet another record breaking month for the number of security bulletins released at one time; although, only two of the bulletins are rated as critical. The first bulletin that needs to be addressed is MS10-090. [...]
November 2010 Patch Tuesday
“In the November 2010 edition of Patch Tuesday, Microsoft has released three new bulletins addressing 11 vulnerabilities. Only one of these vulnerabilities, addressed in Security Bulletin MS10-087, is publicly known. This zero-day vulnerability was previously discussed in Microsoft Security Advisory 2269637. Microsoft typically follows a large patch release month with a lighter patch month, so [...]
New Zero-Day Vulnerability for Internet Explorer
Today, Microsoft announced a new Security Advisory affecting Internet Explorer. Security Advisory 2458511 affects all supported versions of Internet Explorer. Navigating to a malicious website could lead to remote code execution. The reported attacks for this vulnerability have been limited to date. In fact, the known websites hosting the exploit have been taken down. There [...]
Shavlik Statement on October 2010 Patch Tuesday
"The October 2010 version of Microsoft Patch Tuesday is a large one with Microsoft releasing 16 bulletins that address 49 vulnerabilities. Both of these numbers are new all time highs for Microsoft. The most alarming number for most administrators will be the 49 vulnerabilities being addressed. But, 26 of these vulnerabilities are addressed in 2 [...]
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