Third Party Patch Roundup – August 2016

Article by Debra Littlejohn Shinder.

IT pros who are looking for relief from the heavy patch loads we've seen recently will find August is a mixed bag. Firefox 48 is here now, along with a bunch of security updates from other vendors.

Summer is drawing to an end and soon fall will be in the air. For those of us in hot climates, this time of the year always comes as a relief. IT pros who are looking for relief from the heavy patch loads we've seen recently will find August is a mixed bag.

Apple is following the light month/heavy month alternating schedule that has been the norm lately and only gives us two, Adobe released only a single security update this month, but Mozilla is making up for it with Firefox 48, which includes twenty-three security fixes. For Google and Linux, it's business as usual.