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2019-09-06 05:21
Microsoft began an aggressive six-month campaign in March of this year to switch the digital signature on all operating system and product updates from using Secure Hash Algorithm 1 (SHA-1) to SHA-2. This required installing the current SHA-2 algorithms in all the operating systems so they could read and deploy the newly signed patches. Microsoft took a phased approach using both dual-signed patches in conjunction with the SHA-2 operating system upgrades where needed. The campaign … More → The post September 2019 Patch Tuesday forecast: Microsoft security update will be complete appeared first on Help Net Security.
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