At 11:32 +1000 15/5/17, David Lochrin wrote:
>https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/security/ms17-010.aspx#MS17-010

Thanks David!

It's dated 14 Mar 2017.

So I wonder how many times sites have been bitten by bad patches, and have 
decided to always wait x patch-releases or y weeks before implementing.

If x > 3 or y > 9, the patch wasn't due to be applied yet.


>On 15/05/17 11:08, Roger Clarke wrote:
>> ... You'd hope that individual IT Directors / CSOs did some homework by
>> Sunday evening at the latest ...

At 11:35 +1000 15/5/17, Tom Worthington wrote:
>I would hope that IT directors do not have old, un-patched copies of Windows 
>as part of their infrastructure. If they do, then the organization needs to 
>replace their IT director, and whoever appointed them.

So which magic wand do you wave to get rid of legacy applications that don't 
run on up-to-date versions of OS, not to mention BYOD?


At 11:32 +1000 15/5/17, David Lochrin wrote:
> ... "The service is unavailable.".
>I suppose several billion people are all trying to do the same thing.

For years, my P2P lecture contained a segment on 'apart from music, what *else* 
would be really good to distribute using P2P rather than client-server (even 
regionally distributed client-server)?'.

The main examples I used were natural disaster emergency messages, and software 
patches.  Each time I raised this with anyone involved with distributing 
security patches, all I got was a glazed look.

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>On 15/05/2017 11:08, Roger Clarke wrote:
>> And it doesn't include information on which patch-package, of which date, 
>> affecting which software, is the one that matters

At 11:32 +1000 15/5/17, David Lochrin wrote:
>A bulletin from CERT was waiting in my inbox on Sunday morning.  I'm not at my 
>usual computer now and so can't forward it, but the relevant Microsoft 
>reference is "Microsoft Security Bulletin MS17-010 - Critical" at
>https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/security/ms17-010.aspx#MS17-010
>
>This gives links to the relevant updates for various MS O/S.
>
>The relevant updates for 32-bit Windows-7 are "KB4012212 (security only)" and 
>KB4012215.  I gather the former is a subset of the latter (?).  But attempting 
>to download it this morning from 
>http://www.catalog.update.microsoft.com/Search.aspx?q=KB4012212 gives "The 
>service is unavailable.".
>
>I suppose several billion people are all trying to do the same thing.
>
>David L.
> 

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