What’s not to love with this month’s Patch Tuesday?
With only 53 updates in the February Patch Tuesday collection released this week — and no updates for Microsoft browsers — you’d be forgiven for thinking we had another easy month (after a light December and January). Despite lower-than-average numbers for updates and patches, four vulnerabilities have been publicly disclosed and we are seeing a growing number of reports of exploits in the wild.
In short: this is a big, important update that will require immediate attention and a rapid response to testing and deployment.
For example, Microsoft has just released an out-of-band update to fix a Wi-Fi issue that is leading to Blue Screens of Death (BSODs). Somebody is going to run into trouble unless this gets fixed fast. We have included a helpful infographic that this month looks a little lopsided (again), as all of the attention should be on the Windows components
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