It's not always interesting, but it's important to stay on top of operating system updates. However, if you're on Windows, you're definitely gonna want to prick up your ears for Microsoft's September 2026 Patch Tuesday.
This might be Microsoft's biggest Patch Tuesday to date, addressing a whopping 974 security flaws found across both Windows 10 and Windows 11. Bleeping Computer offers a handy breakdown, reporting that 438 of these flaws were elevation of privilege vulnerabilities, 258 were remote code execution vulnerabilities, and 19 were security feature bypass vulnerabilities.
Perhaps more importantly, this Patch Tuesday also targets two actively exploited zero-days. Specifically, these are CVE-2026-85880 and CVE-2026-81963, which had both been leveraged previously to give attackers elevated system privileges.
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