Weekly briefing
Week 1 · 1 Jan – 7 Jan 2018 UTC · assess the changes, then plan the next dates.
Coming up1
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Patch Tuesday, 9 January 2018
The second Tuesday of the month, when Microsoft releases security updates for Windows, Office, and servers.
Changed1
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VMSA-2018-0004:VMware vSphere, Workstation and Fusion updates add Hypervisor-Assisted Guest Remediation for speculative execution issue
VMware security advisories (Broadcom)
How this list is chosen
Changes from 1 Jan 2018 – 7 Jan 2018 UTC and dates due up to 6 Feb 2018. 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.