Chitchat another day, another ms update

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An honorable member of the Coffee Shop Has Just Posted the Following:

here i am in the data center in the wee hours pulling updates from mshit for ms office 2010 64-bit edition clients. again. out of 19 file downloads, 11 are for security patches. there are hundreds of thousands of clients out there, and everyone gets hit with mass patches at the same time as they are being pushed out simultaneously. and this is only the tip of the proverbial iceberg of looming updates. there are other updates in the pipeline, most notably from adobe, webex, wireshark, and filezilla. adobe is the other constant nagger with updates almost every other week. luckily, tens of thousands of clients not on ms are using macbooks, and that number will rise. very little problem with that bunch. as for this batch of ms downloads, even with 11 security patches, sure enough, the network on both client and server sides gets stormed with new threat vectors, almost instantly after patches are installed and clients rebooted. well over 1 billion suspicious attempts on both client and server sides in 1 hour. the usual number before updates is a tad below 1 billion. if we junk ms, we'll probably see the attempts going south by a majority. those guys are likely using bot armies infected on millions of gadgets out there, including mobiles, to swarm in to check for new ms (update) vulnerabilities at this hour, at least at over 1000 attempts an hour per device. fortunately the 2 layers of massive idp stacks in geographic redundancy are holding up. let's wait and see.


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