Updates 2024-07-09

Today is Patch Tuesday for July, 2024.

There were 330+ major hacks, and over 360 application updates this month. It’s an average month, with about 3.0 GB of updates for most users.

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Updates 2023-10-10

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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.

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Updates 2023-07-11

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Today is Patch Tuesday for July, 2023.

This month has actually been pretty quiet. There were only 140 major hacks, and over 145 application updates this month. There are only about 4 GB of updates for most users.


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Updates 2023-03-14

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Today is Patch Tuesday for March, 2023.

This month brings a (mere) 104 major hacks and over 169 application updates. It’s the lightest month we’ve seen in a while with about 2 GB of updates for most users.


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Updates 2022-11-08

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Today is Patch Tuesday for November, 2022.

This month brings a new major version of macOS (13/Ventura) and a new major version of Windows 10. That’s on top of the nearly 100 major hacks, and over 130 application updates this month. Well, not really this month, since there were many more published on Oct 18th in the last newsletter. There is an OpenSSL security update, so almost every network or internet capable application has a security update right now. There should be about 4.5 GB of updates for most users.


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