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September 2019 Patch Tuesday forecast: Microsoft security update will be complete

Reported by helpnetsecurity.com

Microsoft began an aggressive six-month campaign in March of this year to switch the digital signature on all operating system and product updates from using Secure Hash Algorithm 1 (SHA-1) to SHA-2. This required installing the current SHA-2 algorithms in all the operating systems so they could read and deploy the newly signed patches.

Read the full article at helpnetsecurity.com