Posts by Adam Nowak

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Patch Tuesday, November 2016

November [https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/security/ms16-nov.aspx] continues a long running trend with Microsoft's products where the majority of bulletins (7) address remote code execution (RCE), closely followed by elevation of privilege (6) and security feature bypass (1). All of this month's critical bulletins are remote code execution vulnerabilities, affecting a variety of products and platforms including Edge, Internet Explorer, Exchange, Microsoft Office, Office Services and

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Patch Tuesday, October 2016

October [https://technet.microsoft.com/library/security/ms16-oct] continues a long running trend with Microsoft's products where the majority of bulletins (6) address remote code execution (RCE) followed by elevation of privilege (3) and information disclosure (1). All of this month's critical bulletins are remote code execution vulnerabilities, affecting a variety of products and platforms including Edge, Internet Explorer, Exchange, Microsoft Office, Office Services and Web Apps, Sharepoint as

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Patch Tuesday, July 2016

July [https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/security/ms16-jul.aspx] continues an on-going trend with Microsoft's products where the majority of bulletins (6) address remote code execution (RCE) followed by information disclosure (2), security feature bypass (2) and elevation of privilege (1). All of this month's 'critical' bulletins are remote code execution vulnerabilities, affecting a variety of products and platforms including Edge, Internet Explorer, Microsoft Office, Office Services

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Update Tuesday, November 2015

November sees a mix of remote code execution and elevation of privilege vulnerabilities enabling an attacker to gain the same rights as the user when the victim opens specially crafted content, such as a webpage, journal file or document containing embedded fonts. These vulnerabilities affect Internet Explorer (7 and onwards), Edge, and Windows (Vista and onwards).  It is advisable for users and administrators to patch the affected platforms. Microsoft includes 12 security bulletins, a third of