Patch Tuesday for October 2014 - bigger than usual as Microsoft, Adobe and Oracle align

                                                        

 Get ready for a bigger-than-usual Patch Tuesday this month. 

October is one of Oracle's Critical Patch Update (CPU) months, and there are usually more fixes in a CPU than there are Bulletins in the average Microsoft or Adobe update.

That's because Oracle buffers up its fixes for a quarter at a time, instead of patching every month.

Oracle also publishes its patches on the Tuesday closest to the middle of the month, which often gives you a week's breathing space after Microsoft and Adobe go live on the second Tuesday.

But October 2014 starts on a Wednesday, which pushes the second Tuesday far enough into the month to co-incide with Oracle's "mid-month" calendar calculations.

As a result, Oracle, Adobe and Microsoft patches are all arriving together on Tuesday 14 October 2014.

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