Microsoft appears to have big plans for Windows Autopatch this year, and has started 2023 by releasing more features designed to help IT professionals get the most out of the automated patching system, starting with FastTrack support. According to Microsoft, FastTrack is a set of resources designed to help organizations onboard Microsoft 365 services. It […]
Microsoft has released fixes for 85 vulnerabilities as part of the October 2022 Patch Tuesday, including 15 that are rated critical and one listed as being exploited in the wild. However, the company still has yet to release patches for the two Exchange vulnerabilities that were reported as being actively exploited last week. Admins should […]
Microsoft has released fixes for more than 60 vulnerabilities in its products for its September 2022 Patch Tuesday release, including one zero day in Windows Common Log File System Driver that is being actively exploited. According to cybersecurity organizations, the Patch Tuesday release fixes issues in a wide range of Microsoft products, ranging from Azure, […]
Now that Windows Autopatch is a few months old, Microsoft is making it even easier for IT admins to update their users’ Microsoft systems and ease their burden on Patch Tuesdays with new features such as application-only authentication and reporting on quality updates. Microsoft calls the updates a “direct result of feedback” from Autopatch users, […]
More than six months after the Log4Shell vulnerability was discovered in the widely used Java logger Log4j, cybersecurity agencies are warning of the continued exploitation of the bug in unpatched VMWare Horizon and Unified Access Gateway servers. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency (CISA), along with the U.S. Coast Guard Cyber Command (CGCYBER), say malicious […]
Update July 11: Windows Autopatch is now generally available. The public preview for Windows Autopatch is now available for organizations that want to automate the process of managing and rolling out updates for Windows and Microsoft 365 apps about a month before it is expected to reach general availability. The Autopatch service, free for certain […]
In the wake of Active Directory authentication failures caused by Microsoft’s May 2022 Patch Tuesday updates, the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has removed a Windows LSA spoofing zero day bug from its catalog of vulnerabilities agencies are required to patch. The bug, CVE-2022-26925, is a Windows LSA spoofing flaw that was patched last […]
Security analysts at Skybox Security uncovered a 42% increase in new ransomware programs targeting known vulnerabilities last year, including critical vulnerabilities discovered in Log4j and Exchange Server. The San Jose, Calif. cybersecurity company’s 2022 Vulnerability and Trends Report, released this week, details how quickly hackers capitalize on new security bugs and continue to reduce the […]
IT admins have a lot of patching to do this month as Microsoft has released patches to address nearly 130 security vulnerabilities, including 10 critical bugs and three with a CVSS of 9.8. According to Zero Day Initiative (ZDI), the vulnerability disclosure initiative of cybersecurity firm Trend Micro, this volume of patches has not been […]
One of Microsoft’s largest announcements about improvements to the Windows management experience for IT professionals last week was Windows Autopatch, a new feature of Windows Enterprise E3 designed to keep Windows and Office software on enrolled endpoints updated automatically. According to Microsoft, Patch Tuesdays — when the company releases monthly security patches the second Tuesday […]
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