It’s September 2016 Patch Tuesday, and Microsoft has released 14 security bulletins that affect a host of components including desktop operating systems, servers, browsers , Exchange server, Silverlight, SMBv1 and several others. It’s a large update that will keep desktop as well as server administrators busy.  Seven updates are rated as critical, while the other seven are rated as important. One 0-day vulnerability CVE-2016-3352 which was publicly disclosed earlier is also patched in the MS16-110 bulletin.

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Its July 2016 patch Tuesday and Microsoft has released 11 security updates that affect a host of desktop and server systems. Six updates are categorized as Critical while the rest are categorized as Important.

Most of the critical updates released today affect desktop systems. Top priority should be given to fixing browsers and Office which includes MS16-084 that affects Internet Explorer, MS16-085 which affects Microsoft Edge and MS16-088 for Office. All three updates fix vulnerabilities that allow an attacker to take complete control of the victim’s machine and therefore these should be patched immediately.

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