Microsoft: Eight Critical Patches Coming Tuesday
It's the sweltering dog days of summer and a lot of system administrators are out on vacation, but August's Patch Tuesday event is bound to be a hectic one for IT staffs charged with keeping up with Microsoft's monthly security fixes.
Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) plans to release eight "critical" security patches on Tuesday and an additional six "important" patches, the company's security mavens announced on Thursday. In those 14 patches, Microsoft aims to fix a total of 34 security flaws in its products.
The news came in an advance notification that the company sends out to system administrators and PC help desk staffs every month on the Thursday before the second Tuesday of the month. It is meant to provide a heads up so that they can prepare and schedule work time to deploy the actual fixes themselves on what's come to be known as "Patch Tuesday."
