Welcome back, Folks!
Today is Patch Tuesday for October, 2023.
This month brings a new version of macOS, version 14.0/Sonoma, an impending new Windows 11 build, and several very high profile vulnerabilities in shared code that affect thousands of applications. Vendors for some will not even discover that they’re vulnerable until their applications are used in mass hacks. The next few months are going to be ugly as this plays out.
There were 153 major hacks, and over 200 application updates this month. It’s an insane month, with about 6 GB of updates for most users.