Microsoft has hustled out an out-of-band update to address a Message Queuing issue introduced by the December 2025 update.

Systems need to talk to one another. When an IT environment contains platforms with multiple messaging protocols—and most do—a message queue (MQ) is required to handle the messages that travel back ...

For years, I/S organizations saw message oriented middleware, or message queuing, as a high risk solution. Today that risk is diminishing quickly. For more than two decades, companies have mostly used ...

WhatsApp has released an update for its iOS app, bringing it up to version 2.17.1. The update brings a few changes to the iOS messaging app, perhaps the most notable being the new queue for offline ...

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A critical flaw in Microsoft Message Queuing Service is likely to be exploited as many organizations could be unaware that it is active. Microsoft patched over 100 vulnerabilities this week in its ...

In this final piece, I will continue with some more detailed items on how to ensure PCI message queue compliance. In part 1 of this series, I detailed issues around PCI and message queuing. In part 2 ...