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October 2026 Patch Tuesday: Microsoft Stopped Sorting by Severity

Microsoft shipped a record 1,410 CVEs on October 13 and, for the first time, grouped them into risk cohorts built around exposure questions instead of severity. The exploited zero-…

October 13, 2026 · Dave Gayler
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Security

CVE-2026-50444: When One Foothold Owns Your Entire Patch Pipeline

CVE-2026-50444 is a Critical WSUS elevation-of-privilege flaw (CVSS 8.8). Microsoft labeled it 'elevation of privilege,' but on a patch-distribution server that means fleet-wide re…

July 15, 2026 · Dave Gayler
WSUSCVE-2026-50444supply chain security
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Scary Times: AI Finds Vulnerabilities Faster Than We Can Fix Them

AI can now discover and exploit zero-day vulnerabilities autonomously. But patching still runs at human speed. With less than 1% of AI-discovered vulnerabilities patched, the defen…

May 30, 2026 · Dave Gayler
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Security

CVE-2025-59287: When Your Patch Server Becomes the Attack Vector

A CVSS 9.8 remote code execution vulnerability in WSUS turned the patch delivery infrastructure into an enterprise-wide attack surface. The first fix was incomplete. Here's what ha…

October 28, 2025 · Dave Gayler
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