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Microsoft's September Patch Tuesday release tackles three vulnerabilities actively being exploited in the wild.

Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday updates for September 2018 address over 60 vulnerabilities, including a zero-day disclosed by a researcher and exploited shortly after by a threat actor. read more

Times to gear up your systems and software. Just a few minutes ago Microsoft released its latest monthly Patch Tuesday update for September 2018, patching a total of 61 security vulnerabilities,...

Microsoft will provide security updates until 2023 to help business customers migrate to Windows 10 - if they pay.

There’s some good and some bad news for the Patch Tuesday forecast this month. The good news is a number of vendors have just released last week, clearing the slate for what might be a fairly...

Microsoft this week revealed plans to offer paid Windows 7 Extended Security Updates (ESU) for three years after traditional support for the operating system will officially end. read more

Security Compass announced it has expanded on operational security (OpSec) requirements available in the SD Elements’ knowledge library, with support for Microsoft Azure and other application...

Flaw allows a local user to obtain System privileges.

Exploit Code Published After Disclosure Process Appears to Have Gone SidewaysMicrosoft appears set to patch a zero-day local privilege escalation vulnerability after a research published...

A Windows task scheduler API function does not check permissions - so any potential local bad actor can alter them to gain elevated privileges.