Patch Tuesday tracks Microsoft's regular security updates, helping readers understand vulnerabilities, fixes, and risks affecting software users.
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Patch Tuesday is the second Tuesday of each month, when Microsoft publishes a scheduled set of security and quality updates for supported products. The term is also used broadly for the recurring monthly patch cycle that organizations use to review, test, and deploy vendor fixes. Releases may address vulnerabilities in operating systems, applications, browsers, and infrastructure components, with severity and affected versions varying by update.
For security teams, the release is a trigger for vulnerability-management work: identify exposed and supported assets, assess whether a flaw is being exploited or affects a critical system, and prioritize deployment accordingly. Testing and staged rollout can reduce compatibility and availability problems, while leaving internet-facing or unpatched systems exposed can increase the chance of compromise. Teams should also account for patches that require reboots, configuration changes, or dependent updates, and track exceptions with compensating controls. Critical fixes may warrant accelerated or emergency deployment rather than waiting for the normal maintenance window.
Microsoft is investigating a newly acknowledged issue causing connectivity issues when using Wi-Fi hotspots after deploying Windows updates released during the June 2022 Patch Tuesday. [...]
Microsoft says that some applications might fail to backup data using Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) after applying the June 2022 Patch Tuesday Windows updates. [...]
Redmond giant will switch to Windows Autopatch service
Microsoft on Tuesday released software updates to fix 60 security vulnerabilities in its Windows operating systems and other software, including a zero-day flaw in all supported Microsoft Office versions on all flavors of Windows that's seen active exploitation for at least two months now. On a lighter note, Microsoft is officially retiring its Internet Explorer (IE) web browser, which turns 27 years old this year.
Microsoft officially released fixes to address an actively exploited Windows zero-day vulnerability known as Follina as part of its Patch Tuesday updates
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Today is Microsoft's June 2022 Patch Tuesday, and with it comes fixes for 55 vulnerabilities, including fixes for the Windows MSDT 'Follina' zero-day vulnerability and new Intel MMIO flaws. [...]
Redmond kicks off Patch Tuesday with a months-old flaw fix Two security vendors – Orca Security and Tenable – have accused Microsoft of unnecessarily putting customers' data and cloud environments at risk by taking far too long to fix critical vulnerabilities in Azure.…