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May’s Patch Tuesday serves up 78 updates, including 5 zero-day fixes – Computerworld
This May Patch Tuesday release is very much a “back-to-basics” update with just 78 patches for Microsoft Windows, Office, Visual Studio, and .NET. Notably, Microsoft has not released any patches for Microsoft Exchange Server or Microsoft SQL Server. Due to the concerns of publicly reported exploits for five Windows vulnerabilities, the Application Readiness team has recommended a “Patch Now” schedule…
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NYT Connections today hints and answers — Tuesday, May 13 (#702)
Looking for clues for today’s Connections answers? The Connections answers on May 13 for puzzle #702 are a little bit easier than yesterday’s puzzle, with the Connections Companion rating this puzzle’s difficulty at 2.8 out of 5. Every day, we update this article with Connections hints and tips to help you find all 4 of today’s answers so you can…
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NYT Connections today hints and answers — Tuesday, May 6 (#695)
Looking for clues for today’s Connections answers? The Connections answers on May 6 for puzzle #695 are a significantly easier than yesterday’s puzzle, with the Connections Companion rating this puzzle’s difficulty at 2.3 out of 5. Every day, we update this article with Connections hints and tips to help you find all 4 of today’s answers so you can keep…
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NYT Connections today hints and answers — Tuesday, April 29 (#688)
Looking for clues for today’s Connections answers? The Connections answers on April 29 for puzzle #688 are harder than yesterday’s puzzle, with the Connections Companion rating this puzzle’s difficulty at 3.3 out of 5. Every day, we update this article with Connections hints and tips to help you find all 4 of today’s answers so you can keep your Connections…
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NYT Strands today — hints, spangram and answers for game #408 (Tuesday, April 15 2025)
Strands today: Quick menu Need some assistance with NYT Strands today? Today’s theme — “Draft picks” — deliberately sends you off in the wrong direction. Below, we’ve compiled some useful hints for Strands #408, as well as the answers, should it come to that. We’ll start off with some clues, before building up to the full answer for Strands #408,…
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For April, a large ‘dynamic’ Patch Tuesday release – Computerworld
Security and authentication Several updates target core identity and authentication components, particularly lsasrv.dll, ci.dll, and skci.dll. These underpin scenarios involving Windows Hello, PIN logins, and certificate services. Even though labeled low risk, these areas are foundational and demand extra care in testing: Windows Defender Application Control (WDAC): Validate AppID tagging and policy updates post-reboot. LSASS (Local Security Authority Subsystem Service): Test…
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For March’s Patch Tuesday, 57 fixes — and 7 zero-days
For so few patches from Microsoft this month (57), we have seven zero-days to manage (with a “Patch Now” recommendation for Windows) and standard release schedules for Microsoft Office, Microsoft browsers (Edge) and Visual Studio. Adobe is back with a critical update for Reader, but it’s not been paired (at least for now) with a Microsoft patch. To navigate what’s…
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NYT Connections today hints and answers — Tuesday, March 4 (#632)
Looking for clues for today’s Connections answers? The Connections answers on March 4 for puzzle #632 is much harder compared to yesterday’s puzzle, with the Connections Companion rating this puzzle’s difficulty at 4.3 out of 5. Every day, we update this article with Connections hints and tips to help you find all 4 of today’s answers so you can keep…
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NYT Connections today hints and answers — Tuesday, February 25 (#625)
Looking for clues for today’s Connections answers? The Connections answers on February 25 for puzzle #625 are a bit harder than yesterday’s puzzle, with the Connections Companion rating this puzzle’s difficulty at 4.5 out of 5. Every day, we update this article with Connections hints and tips to help you find all 4 of today’s answers so you can keep…
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For February’s Patch Tuesday, Microsoft rolls out 63 updates – Computerworld
Networking and Remote Desktop services Winsock: Microsoft advises that a multipoint socket (type c_root) is created and employed with the following operations: bind, connect, and listen. The socket should close successfully. DHCP: Create test scenarios to validate Windows DHCP client operations (discover, offer, request, and acknowledgment (ACK)). RDP: Ensure that you can configure Microsoft RRAS servers through netsh commands. ICS: Ensure that Internet Connection Sharing (ICS) can…
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