{"id":19703,"date":"2020-07-15T08:26:19","date_gmt":"2020-07-15T12:26:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=19703"},"modified":"2020-07-15T10:12:40","modified_gmt":"2020-07-15T14:12:40","slug":"microsofts-july-2020-patch-fixes-123-bugs-18-of-them-are-critical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/microsofts-july-2020-patch-fixes-123-bugs-18-of-them-are-critical\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft&#8217;s July 2020 Patch Fixes 123 bugs &#8211; 18 of Them are Critical"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 24pt;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Microsoft&#8217;s July 2020 Patch Fixes 123 bugs &#8211; 18 of Them are Critical<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2020\/tuesday.png\" alt=\"Patch Tuesday\" width=\"604\" height=\"273\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">For Windows users, the second Tuesday of each month is known as Patch Tuesday.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The July 2020 &#8220;Patch Tuesday&#8221; patch fixes 123 vulnerabilities &#8211; 18 of those are listed as &#8220;Critical&#8221;. The other 105 patches are labeled important. None of the vulnerabilities have yet been exploited &#8220;in the wild&#8221; &#8212; i.e outside of testing labs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The patch fixes bugs in a wide array of Microsoft products including Windows 10, Microsoft\u2019s new Chromium-based Edge browser, Internet Explorer, Outlook, Word, Office Services, Windows Defender, OneDrive, and more.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\"><strong>Problems with the Patch<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">We recommend you delay installing the July 2020 Patch Tuesday patches for 7 days. Users are reporting some issues with some of the patches. But <strong>please remember that you must install the patches to be safe<\/strong>. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Why? Miscreants study the details of the vulnerabilities published by Microsoft and attempt to craft malware to exploit some of them. While this does not happen overnight, you must install the July patches within a week or two. Please do not skip them. If you do you&#8217;ll be vulnerable to exploits.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\"><strong>How to delay the updates for 7 days<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">1. Right-click on the Start button<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">2. Click Settings<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">3. Click Update &amp; Security<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">4. Click &#8220;Windows Update&#8221; (in the menu on the left)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2020\/pause.png\" alt=\"Cloudeight Windows 10 Tips\" width=\"590\" height=\"300\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">For technical information and to learn more about the July Patch Tuesday patch and to see what problems users are reporting, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/yads38yh\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">see this page<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Microsoft&#8217;s July 2020 Patch Fixes 123 bugs &#8211; 18 of Them are Critical For Windows users, the second Tuesday of each month is known as Patch Tuesday.\u00a0 The July 2020 &#8220;Patch Tuesday&#8221; patch fixes 123 vulnerabilities &#8211; 18 of those are listed as &#8220;Critical&#8221;. The other 105 patches are labeled important. None of the vulnerabilities have\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/microsofts-july-2020-patch-fixes-123-bugs-18-of-them-are-critical\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19709,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2509,2641,3948,10,2366],"tags":[3988,3921],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19703"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19703"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19705,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19703\/revisions\/19705"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}