Microsoft has announced their May 2013 advanced notification. The May edition of Patch Tuesday will include 10 security bulletins. Microsoft is working to have the Internet Explorer Security Update to address the issue described in Security Advisory 2847140, supplementing the currently available Fix it. Security Bulletin breakdown: 2 bulletins are rated as Critical 8 bulletins [...]
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Microsoft announced their April 2013 advanced notification for Patch Tuesday. The April edition of Patch Tuesday will be bringing nine security bulletins. Security Bulletin Breakdown: 2 bulletins are rated as Critical 7 bulletins are rated as Important 2 bulletins address vulnerabilities that could lead to Remote Code Execution 5 bulletins address vulnerabilities that could lead to Elevation [...]
vCenter Protect 9.0 Beta is Live!
Hey All, We have a big week this week. We have a HUGE release coming with vCenter Protect 9.0. The product is in public beta as of yesterday. We have many amazing new features like Cloud Agents, Hypervisor Patching, 64 bit Edition, a host of UI and usability improvements, the list goes on and on. [...]
March 2013 Patch Tuesday Advanced Notification
Microsoft announced their March 2013 advanced notification for Patch Tuesday. The March edition of Patch Tuesday will be bringing seven security bulletins, six of which will be supported in vCenter Protect. The seventh is a patch on Office for Mac. Security Bulletin Breakdown: 4 bulletins are rated as Critical 3 bulletins are rated as Important 3 bulletins address vulnerabilities that could lead [...]
February 2013 Patch Tuesday Overview
This week New York gets hammered with snow and IT Admins get hammered with patches. Microsoft has released 12 new security bulletins addressing 55 vulnerabilities. The number of vulnerabilities this month comes very close to the record 64 vulnerabilities resolved in the April 2011 Patch Tuesday. Of the 12 bulletins released this Patch Tuesday, 5 are critical. [...]
January 2013 Patch Tuesday Overview
To ring in the New Year, today Microsoft has released seven new security bulletins addressing 12 vulnerabilities. However, the most notable headline from this Patch Tuesday is a security bulletin that was not released. On December 29, 2012, Microsoft released a security advisory (2794220) informing administrators of a vulnerability in Internet Explorer was currently being [...]
January 2013 Patch Tuesday Advanced Notification
To ring in the New Year, Microsoft has announced their January 2013 advanced notification for Patch Tuesday. The January 2013 edition of Patch Tuesday will be bringing seven security bulletins addressing 12 vulnerabilities. Security Bulletin Breakdown: 2 bulletins are rated as Critical 5 bulletins are rated as Important 2 bulletins addressing vulnerabilities that could lead [...]
December 2012 Patch Tuesday Overview
For December 2012 Patch Tuesday, Microsoft has released seven new security bulletins addressing 12 vulnerabilities. This month’s Patch Tuesday is affects every Microsoft operating system and every supported version of Microsoft Internet Explorer. All machines on an administrator’s network will need to be patched this month. There are two security bulletins that will need to [...]
December 2012 Patch Tuesday Advanced Notification
During this holiday season, Microsoft is giving the gift of patches! Microsoft has announced their December 2012 Advance Notification for the upcoming Patch Tuesday. Microsoft plans to release seven new security bulletins addressing 11 vulnerabilities. Security Bulletin Breakdown: 5 bulletins are rated as Critical 2 bulletins are rated as Important 6 bulletins addressing vulnerabilities that [...]
November 2012 Patch Tuesday Overview
Microsoft has released six updates addressing 19 vulnerabilities in the November 2012 edition of Patch Tuesday. The first bulletin administrators should look at patching immediately is the cumulative update for Internet Explorer. Unlike most cumulative Internet Explorer updates, MS12-071 only affects Internet Explorer version 9. Like most browser-based attack scenarios, this vulnerability can be exploiting [...]
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