Weekly briefing

Week 9 · 24 Feb – 1 Mar 2020 UTC · assess the changes, then plan the next dates.

What to assess first

24 Feb – 1 Mar · dates to 31 Mar Check coverage

Act on1

Mar2020
Known issueMar 2020
User passwords will be restricted to 256 characters.
Identity-platform authentication changes
Related evidence (1)
- Empty fragments will be appended to every HTTP redirect from the login endpoint.
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Coming up1

10Mar
Patch TuesdayScheduled for 10 Mar 2020
Patch Tuesday, 10 March 2020
The second Tuesday of the month, when Microsoft releases security updates for Windows, Office, and servers.

How this list is chosen

Changes from 24 Feb 2020 – 1 Mar 2020 UTC and dates due up to 31 Mar 2020. 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.

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