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9 Security Bulletins were released – 3 Critical, 6 Important, and 0 Moderate This Month In Brief 8 New Security Bulletins were released – 2 Critical, 6 Important Microsoft included the May 1st out of band patch (MS14-021) in May’s Security Bulletins . This was previously approved the day it became available – see https://virtualadministrator.com/blog/microsoft-internet-explorer-vulnerability-patch-release/…

4 Security Bulletins were released – 2 Critical, 2 Important, and 0 Moderate This Month In Brief We are denying KB2919355 at this time- see details below. All other patches have been approved. MS14-017 and MS14-018 are rated Critical. After your next patch cycle completes you should follow up and make sure these are installed.…

We have not uncovered any widespread problems with any of these patches and are releasing all of them.

MS14-012 and MS14-013 are rated Critical. After your next patch cycle completes you should follow up and make sure these are installed. The top priority this month is MS14-012. It affects all versions of Internet Explorer and was reported in February (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/advisory/2934088). MS14-015 is rated Important and patches the Windows Kernel Driver sub-system. There have been some isolated reports of MS14-015 (KB2930275) causing problems with Vista machines but these reports have not been corroborated. If you do have problems with Vista machines after patching this is most likely suspect.

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.

4 Security Bulletins were released – 0 Critical, 4 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. It’s a light month for patches. Only 4 security bulletins and none of them rated Critical. MS14-002 patches Windows XP…

10 Security Bulletins were released – 5 Critical, 5 Important, and 0 Moderate This Month In Brief 11 Security Bulletins were released 5 Critical, 6 Important We have decided to deny KB2887069 (MS13-101) at this time. There are a number of reports that anti-virus can interfere with KB2887069’s installation and the update gets stuck during…