October 2019 Patch Tuesday forecast: Be sure to apply service stack updates - Help Net Security

October 2019 Patch Tuesday forecast: Be sure to apply service stack updates - Help Net Security

School is back in session across most of the world, and here in the United States most students look forward to a school holiday called ‘fall break.’ While we never have a Patch Tuesday off, this may actually be a bit of fall break for most us because I don’t anticipate many updates this month.


Before we get into the forecast details, I’d like to provide some information around service stack updates (SSUs) and how they should be handled as part of the security patch process.


Service stack updates


The service stack is the Windows operating system component responsible for processing and deploying the OS and application patches/updates. Because this component is so critical to the ongoing maintenance and stabilit ..

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