Weekly briefing
Week 8 · 18 Feb – 24 Feb 2013 UTC · assess the changes, then plan the next dates.
Coming up1
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Patch Tuesday, 12 March 2013
The second Tuesday of the month, when Microsoft releases security updates for Windows, Office, and servers.
How this list is chosen
Changes from 18 Feb 2013 – 24 Feb 2013 UTC and dates due up to 26 Mar 2013. Dates are the source's own, or labelled as the day ChangeIntel observed a change; never inferred effective dates.
Ranked by kind: exploited vulnerabilities, then up to 3 dates, open known issues, and other notable changes, with at most one entry per feed. Service incidents are on the status board; security baseline downloads, first captures of a document, and metadata-only documentation checks are left out. This is a view of retained evidence, not a reconstruction of everything known at the time.
The briefing is selective. Browse every dated change, review upcoming dates or check the period's coverage.