It's been a while since the last edition, but welcome back to the seventh edition of PatchWork! For this October Patch Tuesday, amazingly, we have fewer than 100 vulnerabilities to take care of, the first month in a series of 8 months in which this has occurred. There's a couple of these that we need to [...]
It’s that time again for the monthly periodical of PatchWork! This time around, there’s not as much big news about the update cycle even with 123 bug fixes ranging anywhere from minor to critical, but there’s always enough to help your Patch Tuesday work for you. The Big (and Old) Kid on the Block: CVE 2020-1350 [...]
Hello and welcome, admins and users alike, to the fifth edition of PatchWork! We have quite a bit to cover today, with a record 129 fixes for various issues. So without further ado, let’s dive in! Remote Code Executions One of the most pronounced vulnerabilities in most Microsoft products, and in most software across the board, [...]
Patchwork: Fourth Edition Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the fourth edition of Patchwork! We have some stunning new developments in the way of Windows Updates, so without further ado, let’s dive in! The End of an Era, and a New Direction for Microsoft A Windows 10 May 2020 Update is sunsetting its support for the 32-bit [...]
Hello and welcome back to another episode of PatchWork! This episode we’re going to take a more in depth look at a few particular updates that are still demonstrating their influence despite Patch Tuesday being two weeks ago. Microsoft had another amazing 113 vulnerabilities, 19 of which are critical and the other 94 being considered important. [...]
Windows Updates, commonly released on Microsoft’s “Patch Tuesday,” have a certain notoriety among Windows users, particularly administrators and IT professionals across the board – they can sometimes break things, instead of making them better. I know a thing or two about the update process, and my section of the blog will be a monthly periodical all [...]