June 08, 2021

Six in-the-wild exploits patched in Microsoft’s June security fix release

Security fixes address five critical vulnerabilities, including scripting and Defender bugs—and one actively exploited flaw in MSHTML.

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March 09, 2021

Critical updates dominate March, 2021 Patch Tuesday releases

Fixes urgently required for DNS and Exchange servers, as well as for all desktop Windows machines

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May 14, 2020

Update now! Windows gets another bumper patch update

Windows users won't have to fix ‘big’ exploited or public flaws this month, but May's Patch Tuesday is one of the biggest patch rounds.

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February 13, 2020

IE zero day and heap of RDP flaws fixed in February Patch Tuesday

Microsoft has finally patched the Internet Explorer (IE) zero-day flaw the company said in January was being used in “limited targeted attacks”.

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January 09, 2020

Browser zero day: Update your Firefox right now!

Firefox has issues an emergency 72.0.1 patch to fix a zero day vulnerability.

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January 07, 2020

‘Maze’ ransomware threatens data exposure unless $6m ransom paid

US cable and wire manufacturer, Southwire, last week filed a civil suit against Maze’s mysterious makers in Georgia Federal court.

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November 13, 2019

November 2019 Patch Tuesday fixes 13 critical flaws and one zero day

November’s Patch Tuesday arrived to plug 73 CVE-level vulnerabilities across Microsoft’s software products, including 13 'criticals'.

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October 09, 2019

October Patch Tuesday: Microsoft fixes critical remote desktop bug

Microsoft fixed 59 vulnerabilities in October's Patch Tuesday, including several critical remote code execution (RCE) flaws.

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September 25, 2019

Microsoft rushes out fix for Internet Explorer zero-day

Microsoft has rushed to patch two flaws affecting IE versions 9 to 11, one of which the company says is being exploited in real attacks.

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