Security News > 2024 > August > August 2024 Patch Tuesday forecast: Looking for a calm August release

First, we had a large set of updates on Patch Tuesday, then we had to work through the CrowdStrike event, and finally many of us had Azure outages due to Microsoft responding to a DDoS attack.

The July 2024 Patch Tuesday release kept everyone busy with updates for Microsoft Windows, Office, SharePoint, SQL Server and.

We're all prepared to deal with a large set of Patch Tuesday updates when they happen, but the added load of unexpected security and operational events really adds to chaos and workload. As the phrase 'add insult to injury' implies, there were also threat actors taking advantage of the situation by sending out phishing attacks with 'free advice and tools' to help you recover from these incidents.

August 2024 Patch Tuesday forecast After an extensive set of CVEs addressed in the OS updates last month, the updates next week should be more in line with the standard 20-30 we normally see.

Adobe released their last security updates for Acrobat and Reader back in May, so be on the lookout for another release this month.

Apple released their latest OS updates on July 29th and then followed up with a dot release earlier this week.

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