Patch Tuesday November 2025: avoid a hacker Black Friday, update your devices now.

Apple Bytes

Apple released updates for all their devices this month. Apple patched 50 security flaws in total.

Have you updated your Watch lately? This summer a story broke that hackers can use smart watches to attack even air gapped devices.

More details on this month’s Apple updates here.

Chrome and other Browser Updates

Google released several update this month for Chrome. Any browser based on Chrome (usually known as Chromium browsers) received those updates too.

Hackers love browsers.

This is the simplest software to patch. Just close and reopen your browser. Please. Today.

Microsoft Windows 10 Mayhem

Predictably Microsoft mangled the first round of security updates for Windows 10 for folks who paid for those updates. Not once but twice.

First Microsoft broke paid enrolment for Windows 10 devices. Second Microsoft mangled the updates so they failed on some Windows 10 machines.

If you still have Windows 10 machines in the office, upgrade as soon as possible. You cannot rely on Microsoft for patches.

Microsoft Patch Tuesday November 2025

Microsoft released updates to fix over 60 vulnerabilities for Windows 11, Office software, SQL, and servers.

The patches address several flaws including one affecting a core Windows component, GDI+, a graphics component used by all kinds of Windows software.

Take time to patch your Windows devices. More details on this Microsoft Patch Tuesday here.

Cloudy Adobe

Adobe released security updates for most of its Creative Cloud software this month. This includes Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, etc. No updates for Acrobat or Reader.

Patch Tuesday November 2025

Avoid a hacker Black Friday and patch your devices. If you’re not sure what you should be patching or why, read my Patch Primer for Small Business blog.