Virtual Administrator’s February 2014 Patch Recommendations
7 Security Bulletins were released – 4 Critical, 3 Important, and 0 Moderate – This Month In Brief – We have not uncovered any widespread problems with any of these patches and are releasing all of them.
MS14-010 should be your priority. It addresses 24 vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer (IE6-IE11). MS14-007 is a Direct2D vulnerability that can trigger remote code execution by opening a malicious website in Internet Explorer or opening an email attachment. MS14-011 patches a vulnerability in the VBScript scripting engine.
November 2013 Patch Recommendations
8 Security Bulletins were released – 3 Critical, 5 Important, and 0 Moderate This Month In Brief We have not uncovered any widespread problems with any of these patches and are releasing all of them. MS13-090 is a zero day vulnerability reported a few days ago. This is an update for ActiveX Kill Bits and…
September 2013 Patch Recommendations
13 Security Bulletins were released – 4 Critical, 9 Important, and 0 Moderate This Month In Brief KB2817630 (a non-security update for Microsoft Office 2013) has been denied in all patch policies. Details are below. All security updates have been approved. 13 Security Bulletins makes this the largest Patch Tuesday of 2013 so far. On…
May 2013 Patch Recommendations
10 Security Bulletins were released – 2 Critical, 8 Important, and 0 Moderate This Month In Brief We have not uncovered any widespread problems with any of these patches and are releasing all of them. MS13-037 and MS13-038 are a top priority as they are rated critical and apply to Internet Explorer. Make sure to…
Fixing Patch Management For Windows 8 Machines
Some of our partners are noticing a few Windows 8/2012 machines are failing to scan properly. Windows 8/2012 require users to Opt-in to the Windows updates server. If machines Opt-out the WUA service will not work and because Kaseya patching relies on WUA. Without WUA, it will not scan properly. You’ll notice this when the machine…
Virtual Administrator’s November 2012 Patch Recommendations
6 Security Bulletins were released – 4 Critical, 1 Important, and 1 Moderate We have not uncovered any widespread problems with any of these patches and are releasing all of them. Noteworthy Patch News Critical update MS12-071 for Internet Explorer is the top priority this month. However the problem only affects IE 9 so the…