Authored by Debra Littlejohn Shinder
Don't let the holiday season fool you – patching
is a never-ending story, and Microsoft prepared 12 patches for us
this Tuesday.
It's a time of year when many office workers slack off a bit
at their jobs, while other, seasonal occupations ramp on. In the IT
world, it's pretty much business as usual. Neither the hackers
and attackers nor the security researchers and software vendors
take the holidays off, so it's important to stay vigilant and
keep our systems updated, even if we'd prefer to be out singing
carols or fighting the crowds who annually play the shopping
madness game.
As usual, Microsoft has an early gift for us. Whether
deliberately or coincidentally, we can sing it to the tune of
The Twelve Days of Patches (that is, if we want to install
just one per day). This dozen of updates includes the usual
suspects: cumulative updates for the IE and Edge web browsers and
the obligatory Adobe Flash update, along with an
