Maintenance in progress

microsoft set a patch tuesday record for the second month running, while a prolific anonymous researcher calling themselves nightmare eclipse published yet another windows zero-day with partial exploit code, and the us cyber agency urged emergency hardening of sharepoint servers already being exploited. the tempo matters: record patch volumes two months in a row plus a lone actor repeatedly dropping working zero-days suggests the defensive side of the windows ecosystem is running behind its attackers.

security trade press and us government advisories