Seriously? More Patches?!

Right, so Microsoft decided September wasn’t peaceful enough and dumped a whole heap of security updates on us. Like we don’t have anything better to do than chase down their coding mistakes. Apparently, there are fixes for everything from Azure shenanigans to goddamn printer vulnerabilities – printers! Who even *uses* those anymore?

The really fun stuff involves a critical Remote Code Execution (RCE) flaw in Microsoft Office. Because of course it does. Let some script kiddie loose with a crafted document and watch the chaos unfold. There’s also a bunch of elevation-of-privilege nonsense, meaning if someone gets *some* access, they can get all the access. Fantastic.

And naturally, there’s a whole load of “important” fixes that are probably just Microsoft covering their asses for things they should have gotten right in the first place. They’re claiming this is a “significant” update… significant like the amount of overtime I’m going to be pulling? Probably.

Bottom line: Patch your damn systems, or get owned. Don’t come crying to me when you’re ransomware bait. You were warned.

Link to the actual report (if you’re masochistic)

Related Anecdote:

I once had a sysadmin complain that patching took “too long.” Too long?! He was running Windows XP on everything, hadn’t updated anything in three years, and then whined when his network got hit with Conficker. Some people just *want* to be hacked, I swear. It saves me the trouble of finding vulnerabilities myself.

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