Hello, welcome to the Wednesday, August 10th, 2016 edition of the Sandstone Storm Center's Stormcast.

My name is Johannes Orich, and the day I'm recording from Jacksonville, Florida.

Microsoft, as expected, published its monthly security bulletins.

Today we got a total of nine security bulletins.

Five of these bulletins were rated

critical and the rest important the first two bulletins as usual are the

cumulative updates for in Explorer and Microsoft Edge for Microsoft's

browsers almost the same number of vulnerabilities between the 2-9 for

Explorer 8 for Edge.

And yes, this is the patch that I would prioritize as first patch just because of the large

footprint and, of course, the exposure via these browsers.

MS-1697, the second patch patches three vulnerabilities in Windows graphics components.

Well, this vulnerability can be reached via instant messaging applications like Microsoft, Skype

for business and link. Of course, Link and the Skype

for business are more and less the same product now. MS-1698, that patches for

approach escalation flaws in Windows kernel mode drivers. Now we are getting soft to the less critical

patches. This one is only rated important and given that this is release of a monthly

occurrence and it's only approach escalation volubly, I would rate this as one of the

updates that you can let slide until you patched all of the remote code execution or the critical vulnerabilities.

And well, they continue here with MS1699.

That's our patch for Microsoft Office.

Also applies to Office for the Mac and VIRD so if you have some limited use work

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