Third Party Patch Roundup – June 2016

Article by Debra Littlejohn Shinder

It's hard to believe June is almost at an end and we are well into the hot Texas summer here at home. My week in beautiful Alaska at the beginning of the month is now only a cool (in both senses) memory.

On the security front, it's been one of "those" months – following a heavy Patch Tuesday from Microsoft, we were hit with an explosion of the JavaScript ransomware RAA.  In Europe, the Brexit vote has affected everything, including speculation regarding how it will impact cybersecurity in the U.K.

So at a time when most of us would love to just take a long vacation and lie on a beach somewhere, instead we're scrambling to stay one step ahead of the hackers and attackers – not that this is any different from any other month in the life of an IT professional.