Late last week a story came out about Juniper Networks routers being susceptible to a remote reboot. Versions of JUNOS and JUNOSe prior to 10.X can be crashed by sending a single packet to an open port on the router. The reboot occurs when a packet with the TCP Header Options field contains malformed data. [...]

There’s a great write-up on building and maintaining a Windows tiered patching infrastructure over at Ars Technica today. It sets up like this:
Windows updates have historically been a constant annoyance for IT staff. Manual updates were a huge pain, and, while the advent of the Automatic Update feature improved the situation, it brought with it [...]