Welcome to this March Patch Monday Bulletin. This month there are patches from Adobe, Google, Mozilla, and Trend Micro. There are no confirmed successful attacks on platforms updated this month but Trend Micro reports that there were “active attempts of potential attacks” against several of the vulnerabilities. If Trend Micro Apex One or OfficeScan is in use, then make sure that updates are applied. Trend Micro states that Apex One as a Service automatically received the patch during their February 2020 release. Review Chrome and Firefox to ensure that updates were applied appropriately throughout the environment. Adobe has priority 2 updates for Adobe Experience Manager and Acrobat/Reader so update those products if they are present in the environment. Finally review the environment for Adobe Bridge, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Genuine Integrity Service, and Mozilla Thunderbird and update as necessary.

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So, without further ado, here’s the chart of non MS patches this month.