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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.21.1904300728580.10941@ip-172-30-0-239.ec2.internal> Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2019 07:29:10 +0000 (UTC) From: InfoSec News <alerts@...osecnews.org> To: isn@...ts.infosecnews.org Subject: [Newsletter/Marketing] [ISN] Microsoft Patch Alert: April patches have sharp edges, with several missing, others reappearing https://www.computerworld.com/article/3216425/microsoft-patch-alert-april-patches-have-sharp-edges-with-several-missing-others-reappearing.html By Woody Leonhard Columnist Computerworld April 29, 2019 You have to wonder who’s testing this stuff. Admins, in particular, have had a tough month. April brought widespread breakdowns – bluescreens, hangs, very sluggish behavior – to hundreds of thousands of Win7 and 8.1 machines. This wasn’t a “small percentage” kind of event. For some companies, rebooting overnight on Tuesday brought seas of blue screens on Wednesday morning. The first round of cumulative updates and Monthly Rollups arrived on Patch Tuesday, but the now-ubiquitous second round didn’t show up until late Thursday afternoon, two and a half weeks later. Talk about admins taking a beating. We still have one Tuesday left this month – the mythical “E week” that Microsoft never talks about – so the month may yet end with both a bang and whimper. Here’s how things look as early Monday morning. [...] -- Subscribe to InfoSec News https://www.infosecnews.org/subscribe-to-infosec-news/ https://twitter.com/infosecnews_
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