Article by Debra Littlejohn Shinder
Microsoft seems to have a thing for "Sweet 16" lately,
as once again they've released sixteen updates for this
month's Patch Tuesday, ensuring that IT professionals will be
kept busy sorting through them, testing them and getting them
applied. They say "when you're hot, you're hot,"
and those of us in Texas and other southern states are feeling the
heat as we scramble to roll out yet another big slate of
patches.
At least I had a break before the deluge, spending the first
week of June in Alaska where I saw a myriad of humpback whales,
eagles and bears, took a helicopter to the top of the glacier and
went dog sledding with a professional musher who trains dogs to
race in the Iditarod. After that experience – during which I
had nary a thought of remote code execution or elevation of
privilege – it wasn't easy to come back to reality where
I have to worry daily about what zero day vulnerabilities may be
lurking in my software.
