Matt Barrett

Blog – Balbix

A Small Yet Mighty Patch Tuesday  Halfway through the year, we get another small, yet mighty patch Tuesday release. Even though there’s a relatively low number of new CVEs to patch (only 50), it packs a punch. In this release, 7 of the 50 are considered zero-day vulnerabilities, and 6 ... Read More

On this, the 2nd Tuesday in May 2021 Microsoft released patches for some 55 vulnerabilities for operating systems and software. Four of these flaws are considered critical, and can be exploited remotely (RCE) resulting in complete control of the vulnerable assets, though no active exploitation has been seen in the ... Read More

Be Nice to Your Admins This month, Microsoft has released its largest haul so far in 2021, with fixes for 110 vulnerabilities, including 19 classified as critical. No rest for the weary… Of the 19 critical, there are 5 zero-days with exploits, including one (CVE-2021-23810) that has been discovered being ... Read More

The Elephant in the Room There were 89 CVEs addressed this month by Microsoft, but of course, they’ve all been overshadowed by the big 4 affecting on-prem Exchange servers, known as the ProxyLogon attacks or by the name of the hacker group allegedly responsible: Hafnium. As is unfortunately typical of ... Read More

A quiet one for Microsoft, but a big one for Adobe Keeping it rolling this month, Microsoft has addressed a total of 56 security flaws, including 11 important ones and one zero-day that has been seen exploited in the wild. The CVEs covered Windows components .NET Framework, Azure, Exchange Server, ... Read More

Off to a Blazing Start 2020 ended with a bang and without missing a beat, here comes a small, but heavy first Patch Tuesday to start 2021. This month, Microsoft has fixed 83 security flaws, down significantly from most of the infamous monthly totals for 2020, but still up significantly ... Read More

Off to a Blazing Start 2020 ended with a bang and without missing a beat, here comes a small, but heavy first Patch Tuesday to start 2021. This month, Microsoft has fixed 83 security flaws, down significantly from most of the infamous monthly totals for 2020, but still up significantly ... Read More

Whether it’s because the code is better, or whether the cybersecurity research community is giving the Microsoft guys a break, we only have 58 CVEs to deal with this month. This is roughly half of the CVEs we had last month, and the lowest count in a patch Tuesday we’ve ... Read More

Whether it’s because the code is better, or whether the cybersecurity research community is giving the Microsoft guys a break, we only have 58 CVEs to deal with this month. This is roughly half of the CVEs we had last month, and the lowest count in a patch Tuesday we’ve ... Read More

It’s that time again… Patch Tuesday! Some good news finally. This is the first month in the past 8 that we’ve had less than 100 CVE’s released. This month’s list of 87 includes 11 critical vulnerabilities (down from 23 last month) with the typical variety of OS, software, and browser-based ... Read More