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    ISSUE 20.33 • 2023-08-14

    PATCH WATCH

    Susan Bradley

    By Susan Bradley

    Another month, another series of updates for seemingly everything on the Windows platform.

    But this isn’t just any month. Patch Tuesday once again coincided with the week of the annual security conference, Black Hat. The Windows-based topics range from “Hacking Bing.com (and much much more) with Azure Active Directory” to a briefing titled “Defender-Pretender: When Windows Defender Updates Become a Security Risk.”

    In addition, there is a talk called “Single Instruction Multiple Data Leaks in Cutting edge CPUs aka Downfall.” Better known as CVE-2022-40982, the flaw is a transient execution side-channel issue and impacts all processors based on Intel microarchitectures from Skylake through Ice Lake. Not to be left out, Apple and Android bugs have their own talks.

    Read the full story in our Plus Newsletter (20.33.0, 2023-08-14).
    This story also appears in our public Newsletter.