Microsoft delays February Patch Tuesday
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Windows system administrators have grown to expect patches from Microsoft on the second Tuesday of each month. The software giant formalized the practice of releasing security patches at the same time each month all the way back in 2003. Microsoft Patch Tuesday was supposed to take place on Valentine's Day this month, and it was expected to contain a fix for a zero-day bug in the SMB file-sharing protocol. It looks like something broke down, though, since the February patch has been scrapped and delayed until next month, meaning the SMB bug will remain unpatched until then.
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