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Security Now · Wednesday, September 16, 2026

Microsoft Releases Nearly 1000 Security Fixes, Including Out-of-Band Patch for Excel Bug

Microsoft's latest Patch Tuesday addressed nearly 1,000 security vulnerabilities. Notably, an out-of-band patch was required to fix a critical Excel copy-and-paste bug, highlighting the risks of immediate patch deployment.

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“We did, as I said, we would do last week. We're gonna take a look at what the heck happened with, uh, last week's Patch Tuesday and Microsoft's nearly 1,000 security fixes.”
“By the way, they had to fix the fixes in an out of band patch.”
“The Excel copy and paste mess. Oops.”
“And actually, I touched on that, uh, by noting that there is a problem with, with just immediately applying whatever Microsoft gives you. Enterprises have been burned by this in the past. So, yeah.”
Heard on Security Now — “SN 1096: Are we the Krell? - 153 Million Driver's Licenses Leaked”, published Wednesday, September 16, 2026. Heardvine summarizes and quotes with attribution and timestamps, and links to the original everywhere.
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