Patch Tuesday is coming up and Microsoft has released an advanced notification about the upcoming security patches. Patch Tuesday refers to the second Tuesday of each month on which security patches are released to the public. The Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification for February 2011 details the upcoming patches. A total of 12 security bulletins [...]

Categories: Adobe, Microsoft, Security

Microsoft has released the last set of planned security bulletins for the year 2010 yesterday. A total of 17 security bulletins have been released that patch vulnerabilities in Microsoft products like the Windows operating system, Microsoft Office or Internet Explorer. When we look at the severity rating of those vulnerabilities we notice that two of [...]

Categories: Security, Windows

Microsoft has released information and patches of this month’s patch day. It is promising that there is no patch for Windows in this month’s patch day. The three bulletins that have been released fix security issues in Microsoft Office and Microsoft forefront United Access Gateway. One of the MS Offices bulletins has a maximum severity [...]

Categories: Security

Every second Tuesday in a month is patch day over at Microsoft. What does it mean? Microsoft pushes out all security patches of a month on that day to all users of their Windows operating systems and other applications like Microsoft Office. Only highly critical vulnerabilities receive out of band security patches. This month’s patch [...]

Categories: Security, Windows

The Microsoft security updates for May 2010 are now available for download and installation. Microsoft has released a total of two security bulletins that fix vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office and Microsoft Visual Basic. The maximum severity rating has been set to critical. The critical rating applies only to some operating systems and applications. [...]

Categories: Security, Windows

Microsoft has released a total of 14 security updates on yesterday’s patch day. The updates are, as usual, for several Microsoft software products including the Microsoft Windows operating system and Microsoft Office. Five of the updates have received a critical rating by Microsoft, the highest security rating. Seven were ranked as important which is the [...]

Categories: Security, Windows

Tomorrow is a day that could force many system administrators into overtime as both Microsoft and Adobe plan to release security patches for several of their products. Microsoft alone plans to release 13 security patches and updates for various Microsoft operating system, Microsoft Office and other Microsoft products. The patch day is also the first [...]

Categories: Adobe, Microsoft, Software, Windows

Just a few minutes ago the patches for this month’s patch day have been uploaded to Windows Update and Microsoft Update. Users are encouraged to update their Microsoft operating system as soon as possible to close the recently discovered security vulnerabilities. Among the affected operating systems are practically all Microsoft operating systems since and including [...]

Categories: Security, Windows

It was always a mystery to me why Microsoft released security patches on one day only considering that an unpatched security vulnerability could be exploited easily in that time. The impression with all the announcements regarding the patches a week or so earlier is that Microsoft has (some of) the patches ready but is not [...]

Categories: Security, Windows