Bumper Patch Tuesday

Today’s Microsoft Patches

Later today, Microsoft will release 11 security patches, covering security vulnerabilities in Windows, Office and Exchange. As usual, we recommend installing these updates on all machines as soon as possible. The breakdown of the patches is as follows:

• 5 patches with a severity rating of Critical for Windows
• 2 patches with a severity rating Important for Windows
• 1 patches with a severity rating Important for Windows and Microsoft Exchange
• 2 patches with a severity rating Important for Microsoft Office
• 1 patch with a severity rating of Moderate for Windows

Adobe Updates

Critical updates from Adobe are also due out today, fixing well-publicised flaws in Acrobat Reader. You should install these on all systems as well.

The Adobe updates are due as part of a quarterly patch batch. More and more vendors have begun updating regular patching cycles (following Microsoft’s lead perhaps), either monthly or quarterly, to help IT systems administrators predict and manage patching workloads.

Patch, Patch and Patch

As ever, we recommend installing all security patches for ALL of the software programs that you have on your machines, not just the Microsoft ones. More and more malware programs (viruses, Trojans, spyware, etc.) are targeting vulnerabilities in other non-Microsoft programs as their entry point into to your systems.

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