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'Black Tuesday' leaves Windows admins blue
By John Hogan, Senior News Editor
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Forget the Monday morning blues. For Windows administrators, the second Tuesday of the month has become the day to dread.
That's the day when Microsoft releases its monthly package of patches. And October's Patch Tuesday -- Black Tuesday for many in IT -- was a doozy: 10 patches for 22 newly discovered vulnerabilities. Administrators now face a mountain of work to prioritize, test and deploy them. And that mountain must seem like Mount St. Helens -- guess wrong about which patches to focus on first and you run the risk of a security eruption that will bury your organization under a heap of worms.
Security and patch management experts warn that Internet-facing systems are most vulnerable, so patches that apply to them are probably a good place to start. There are, however, plenty of curveballs thrown in that will challenge admins searching for their organization's soft underbelly. Good examples are the flaws in NetDDE and NNTP, features that are normally off by default in Windows, but can be enabled without anyone realizing it.
Click here to read more about Microsoft's record-breaking Patch Tuesday, as well as for a wrap-up of the week's Windows news.
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Learning Center: 2004 Hall of Fame Tips
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Oops! True IT Blooper #156: The power plug turnover challenge
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How do you get a furious customer to plug in his new terminal when he is convinced that he already did? You can try to reason and potentially lose a million-dollar customer, or you can offer up a big, fat lie and save yourself a ton of grief. Evidence suggests the latter is the preferable approach. Read the story in this amazing but true IT blooper!
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