Technical Communications
The second Tuesday of the month is here, which means one thing – new patches from Microsoft. Compared to recent months, September’s batch of patches is slightly larger with 14 bulletins in all, evenly split between Critical and Important ones.
Read More The second Tuesday of August has arrived, which means one thing for Microsoft users: Patch Tuesday. Relatively speaking, August’s batch of patches is relatively light, with only nine bulletins, although five are rated as Critical.
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Last week, a lot of tech media sites were breathlessly reporting how the National Institute of Science and Technology in the United States was saying that two-factor authentication (2FA) via SMS messages would be “deprecated” in future standards. Some took this to mean that this technique was insecure, and that users should shy away from this method. Let’s step back and see what the NIST really said:
Read More System administrators from all over the world know what the second Tuesday of the month brings: the regularly scheduled bounty of patches from Microsoft and other vendors. Because June started on a Wednesday, this month’s Patch Tuesday was on June 14, which is the latest it can be in any given month. This month’s volume…
Read More The second Tuesday of the month has arrived which means the arrival of regularly scheduled patches from Microsoft and other vendors. This month’s release includes sixteen bulletins from Microsoft, as well as an update from Adobe for their PDF-related application. A separate update for Flash Player will arrive later this week.
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