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May 2012 Patch Tuesday Overview

May 2012 Patch Tuesday Overview

By on May 9, 2012 in Editorial, Patch Management, Security, Windows

Marking the May 2012 edition of Patch Tuesday, Microsoft has released seven new security bulletins addressing 23 vulnerabilities. The first bulletin administrators should address immediately is the mammoth security bulletin MS12-034.  The sheer size of this security bulletin will undoubtedly affect the majority of your network when patching this month. This bulletin covers: 72 Microsoft [...]

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May 2012 Patch Tuesday Advanced Notification

May 2012 Patch Tuesday Advanced Notification

By on May 4, 2012 in Editorial, Patch Management, Security, Windows

Microsoft has released their Advanced Notification for the May 2012 edition of Patch Tuesday.  Microsoft is planning to release seven bulletins addressing 23 vulnerabilities.  In addition, they will be releasing a Security Advisory to update ActiveX killbits.  Last year, Microsoft moved the ActiveX killbit updates from a Security Bulletin to a Security Advisory.  So, you [...]

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April 2012 Patch Tuesday Overview

April 2012 Patch Tuesday Overview

By on April 10, 2012 in Editorial, Patch Management, Security

Microsoft has released six bulletins addressing 11 vulnerabilities in the April 2012 version of Patch Tuesday. Marking the fourth Patch Tuesday of the year, Microsoft and non-Microsoft vendors are making this quite an interesting month with critical security bulletins and new products to consider in your monthly Patch Tuesday. There are many products that are [...]

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April 2012 Patch Tuesday Advanced Notification

April 2012 Patch Tuesday Advanced Notification

By on April 6, 2012 in Editorial, Patch Management, Security, Windows

Microsoft has released their Advance Notification for the upcoming April Patch Tuesday.  With the six bulletins announced, Microsoft is planning to address 11 vulnerabilities.  This marks Microsoft’s heavy patch month and we are seeing this with the sheer number of affected products this month.  We are also looking at a heavy server patching month to [...]

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Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification for February 2012

Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification for February 2012

By on February 10, 2012 in News

Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification for February 2012 Published: Thursday, February 09, 2012 Version: 1.0 This is an advance notification of security bulletins that Microsoft is intending to release on February 14, 2012. This bulletin advance notification will be replaced with the February bulletin summary on February 14, 2012. For more information about the bulletin [...]

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February 2012 Patch Tuesday Advanced Notification

February 2012 Patch Tuesday Advanced Notification

By on February 10, 2012 in News, Patch Management, Security

Microsoft has announced their February 2012 Advanced Notification for the upcoming Patch Tuesday.  Microsoft is planning to release nine security bulletins fixing 21 vulnerabilities. Security Bulletin Breakdown: 4 bulletins are rated as Critical 5 bulletins are rated as Important 7 vulnerabilities could lead to Remote Code Execution 2 vulnerabilities could lead to Elevation of Privilege [...]

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January 2012 Patch Tuesday Overview

January 2012 Patch Tuesday Overview

By on January 11, 2012 in Patch Management, Security

Microsoft is starting off the new year with seven new security bulletins released for the January 2012 Patch Tuesday.  These seven new security bulletins address eight vulnerabilities. The primary bulletin administrators should patch first is MS12-004.  This security bulletin addresses two vulnerabilities with Windows Media types.  Opening a malicious media or MIDI file on an [...]

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December 2011 Patch Tuesday Advanced Notification

December 2011 Patch Tuesday Advanced Notification

By on December 9, 2011 in Patch Management, Security

Microsoft has released their advanced notification for the December 2011 edition of Patch Tuesday. Microsoft is giving the gift of 14 security bulletins addressing 20 vulnerabilities this holiday season. Security Bulletin Breakdown: 3 bulletins rated as Critical 11 bulletins rated as Important 10 vulnerabilities could lead to Remote Code Execution 1 vulnerability could lead to [...]

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November 2011 Patch Tuesday Overview

November 2011 Patch Tuesday Overview

By on November 8, 2011 in Patch Management, Security

Microsoft has released four new security bulletins for this edition of Patch Tuesday. These four security bulletins address four vulnerabilities. The first bulletin administrators should address is MS11-083. This bulletin addresses one vulnerability in Windows TCP/IP. If an attacker sends a stream of malicious User Datagram Protocol (UDP) network packets to an unpatched machine, the [...]

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November 2011 Patch Tuesday Advanced Notification

November 2011 Patch Tuesday Advanced Notification

By on November 4, 2011 in Editorial, Patch Management, Security

Microsoft has released their advanced notification for the upcoming November edition of Patch Tuesday. Microsoft is planning to release four new security bulletins addressing four vulnerabilities. Security Bulletin Breakdown: 1 bulletin rated as Critical 2 bulletins rated as Important 1 bulletin rated as Moderate 2 vulnerabilities fixed could lead to Remote Code Execution 1 vulnerability [...]

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