{"id":198958,"date":"2017-02-15T10:03:52","date_gmt":"2017-02-15T08:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=198958"},"modified":"2017-02-15T10:07:22","modified_gmt":"2017-02-15T08:07:22","slug":"windows-february-security-update-delayed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/198958-windows-february-security-update-delayed.html","title":{"rendered":"Windows February security update delayed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has delayed its latest &#8220;Patch Tuesday&#8221; security update, following a &#8220;last-minute issue&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our top priority is to provide the best possible experience for customers in maintaining and protecting their systems,&#8221; said <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/msrc\/2017\/02\/14\/february-2017-security-update-release\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Microsoft<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This month, we discovered a last-minute issue that could impact some customers and was not resolved in time for our planned updates today.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;After considering all options, we made the decision to delay this month\u2019s updates. We apologise for any inconvenience caused by this change to the existing plan.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/microsoft\/microsoft-delays-february-2017-security-updates-due-to-last-minute-issue-\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Bleeping Computer<\/strong><\/a> reported that the zero-day vulnerability affecting the\u00a0SMBv3 protocol is a possible cause of the delay.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/198100-why-all-windows-drivers-are-dated-21-june-2006.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Why all Windows drivers are dated 21 June 2006<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has delayed its latest &#8220;Patch Tuesday&#8221; security update, following a &#8220;last-minute issue&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":193098,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[123,807,26970],"class_list":["post-198958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-microsoft","tag-windows","tag-windows-10"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198958"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198958"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":198960,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198958\/revisions\/198960"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}