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Microsoft Patch Tuesday, December 2022 Edition

December 14, 2022 admin apple zero-day, cve-2022-41076, cve-2022-44698, cve-2022-44710, cve-2022-44713, Greg Wiseman, immersive labs, kevin breen, Latest Warnings, microsoft patch tuesday december 2022, Powershell, Rapid7, Security Tools, Sophos, Time to Patch, trend micro's zero day initiative, will dormann, windows

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2022 17:01:07 +0000

Microsoft has released its final monthly batch of security updates for 2022, fixing more than four dozen security holes in its various Windows operating systems and related software. The most pressing patches include a zero-day vulnerability in a Windows feature that tries to flag malicious files from the Web, a critical bug in PowerShell, and a dangerous flaw in Windows 11 systems that was detailed publicly prior to this week’s Patch Tuesday.

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Microsoft Patch Tuesday, August 2022 Edition

August 9, 2022 admin cve-2022-21980, cve-2022-24477, cve-2022-24516, cve-2022-30133, cve-2022-30134, cve-2022-34713, cve-2022-35743, follina, Greg Wiseman, immersive labs, kevin breen, microsoft patch tuesday august 2022, Rapid7, sans internet storm center, Time to Patch, visual studio, Windows Hello

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2022 23:01:10 +0000

Microsoft today released updates to fix a record 141 security vulnerabilities in its Windows operating systems and related software. Once again, Microsoft is patching a zero-day vulnerability in the Microsoft Support Diagnostics Tool (MSDT), a service built into Windows. Redmond also addressed multiple flaws in Exchange Server — including one that was disclosed publicly prior to today — and it is urging organizations that use Exchange for email to update as soon as possible and to enable additional protections.

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Microsoft Patch Tuesday, July 2022 Edition

July 12, 2022 admin cve-2022-22022, cve-2022-22029, cve-2022-22038, cve-2022-22039, cve-2022-22041, cve-2022-22047, cve-2022-30206, cve-2022-30221, cve-2022-30226, Dan Goodin, Greg Wiseman, immersive labs, kevin breen, microsoft patch tuesday july 2022, Rapid7, Security Tools, sergiu gatlan, Tenable, Time to Patch

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2022 01:02:49 +0000

Microsoft today released updates to fix at least 86 security vulnerabilities in its Windows operating systems and other software, including a weakness in all supported versions of Windows that Microsoft warns is actively being exploited. The software giant also has made a controversial decision to put the brakes on a plan to block macros in Office documents downloaded from the Internet.

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Microsoft Patch Tuesday, May 2022 Edition

May 10, 2022 admin adobe, cve-2022-26925, cve-2022-26937, dustin childs, Greg Wiseman, local security authortity, microsoft patch tuesday may 2022, petitpotam, Rapid7, Satnam Narang, Tenable, Time to Patch, trend micro zero day initiative, windows print spooler

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 11 May 2022 02:34:59 +0000

Microsoft today released updates to fix at least 74 separate security problems in its Windows operating systems and related software. This month’s patch batch includes fixes for seven “critical” flaws, as well as a zero-day vulnerability that affects all supported versions of Windows.

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Microsoft Patch Tuesday, March 2022 Edition

March 9, 2022 admin cve-2022-21967, cve-2022-21990, cve-2022-23277, cve-2022-23285, cve-2022-24459, cve-2022-24503, cve-2022-24508, cve-2022-24512, dustin childs, Greg Wiseman, immersive labs, kevin breen, microsoft exchange server, microsoft patch tuesday march 2022, Rapid7, remote desktop, Time to Patch, trend micro zero day initiative, windows smbv3

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2022 16:22:12 +0000

Microsoft on Tuesday released software updates to plug at least 70 security holes in its Windows operating systems and related software. For the second month running, there are no scary zero-day threats looming for Windows users (that we know of), and relatively few “critical” fixes. And yet we know from experience that attackers are already trying to work out how to turn these patches into a roadmap for exploiting the flaws they fix. Here’s a look at the security weaknesses Microsoft says are most likely to be targeted first.

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Microsoft Patch Tuesday, February 2022 Edition

February 8, 2022 admin Allan Liska, andrew cunningham, Ars Technica, cve-2022-21989, cve-2022-21996, cve-2022-22005, Greg Wiseman, immersive labs, kevin breen, print spooler, Rapid7, Recorded Future, Time to Patch, win32k

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2022 22:38:16 +0000

Microsoft today released software updates to plug security holes in its Windows operating systems and related software. This month’s relatively light patch batch is refreshingly bereft of any zero-day threats, or even scary critical vulnerabilities. But it does fix four dozen flaws, including several that Microsoft says will likely soon be exploited by malware or malcontents.

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Patch Tuesday Lowdown, April 2019 Edition

April 9, 2019 admin Chris Goettl, CVE-2019-0803, CVE-2019-0859, Ghacks.net, Greg Wiseman, Ivanti, Martin Brinkmann, Microsoft Patch Tuesday April 2019, Qualys, Rapid7, sans internet storm center, Time to Patch

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2019 00:07:33 +0000

Microsoft today released fifteen software updates to fix more than 70 unique security vulnerabilities in various flavors of its Windows operating systems and supported software, including at least two zero-day bugs. These patches apply to Windows, Internet Explorer (IE) and Edge browsers, Office, Sharepoint and Exchange. Separately, Adobe has issued security updates for Acrobat/Reader and Flash Player.