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Microsoft today released updates to plug at least 110 security holes in its Windows operating systems and other products. The patches include four security fixes for Microsoft Exchange Server - the same systems that have been besieged by attacks on four separate bugs in the email software over the past month.
Just weeks after a wave of major in-the-wild zero-day attacks against Exchange Server installations globally, Microsoft is raising a fresh alarm for four new critical security flaws that expose businesses to remote code execution attacks. The four new Exchange Server vulnerabilities were fixed as part of this month's Patch Tuesday bundle and because of the severity of these issues, Microsoft has joined with the U.S. National Security Agency to urge the immediate deployment of the new fixes.
Today is Microsoft's April 2021 Patch Tuesday, and with it comes five zero-day vulnerabilities and more Critical Microsoft Exchange vulnerabilities. With today's update, Microsoft has fixed 108 vulnerabilities, with 19 classified as Critical and 89 as Important.
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March kept us all very busy with the ongoing out-of-band Microsoft updates for Exchange Server and the printing BSODs, which plagued us since last Patch Tuesday. The Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams is an international organization that provides best practices and assistance when dealing with a security incident.
On the off chance you were looking for more security to-dos from Microsoft todaythe company released software updates to plug more than 82 security flaws in Windows and other supported software. This is probably a good place to quote Ghacks.net's Martin Brinkman: This is the last patch hurrah for the legacy Microsoft Edge web browser, which is being retired by Microsoft.
Microsoft has released its regularly scheduled March Patch Tuesday updates, which address 89 security vulnerabilities overall. Included in the slew are 14 critical flaws and 75 important-severity flaws.
Patches for four actively exploited Exchange Server vulnerabilities have already been delivered with the updates for supported versions released last week. Among the vulnerabilities patched by Microsoft on this March 2021 Patch Tuesday are several deserving extra attention.
Today is Microsoft's March 2021 Patch Tuesday, and with admins already struggling with Microsoft Exchange updates and hacked servers, please be nice to your IT staff today. With today's update, Microsoft has fixed 82 vulnerabilities, with 10 classified as Critical and 72 as Important.
Exchange Servers targeted via zero-day exploits, have yours been hit?Microsoft has released out-of-band security updates for seven bugs affecting Microsoft Exchange Servers, four of which are zero-day vulnerabilities being exploited by attackers in the wild to plunder on-premises machines. March 2021 Patch Tuesday forecast: Off to an early startMicrosoft got an early start on Patch Tuesday, releasing a series of out-of-band security updates for actively exploited bugs in Exchange Server.