Microsoft’s scheduled batch of patches for November fixes at least four documented vulnerabilities affecting Windows, Internet Explorer and Office users. The updates apply to users running all supported versions of Windows (including Vista and Windows Server 2008) and most versions of Microsoft Office Details available here The first critical update cover the risk of remote code exec
Malicious attackers are once again taking advantage of event-based social engineering attacks, and are currently mass mailing fake notifications for Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday, attaching a copy of Trojan.Backdoor.Haxdoor, next to a legitimately looking PGP signature which is, of course, fake too : “We received some questions from customers about an e-mail that´s circulating that claims to…..
Next Tuesday (August 12th), Microsoft will ship 12 security bulletins with fixes for serious vulnerabilities in a wide range of of widely deployed products. Seven of the 12 bulletins will be rated “critical,” Microsoft’s highest severity rating. The critical patches affect Windows, Internet Explorer, Access, Windows Media Player and Microsoft Office. Updates for Office, whic
Microsoft’s monthly security update is coming up next week and the company has issued its usual list of bugs to be quashed which includes three critical updates, three important updates and one...
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The November security updates fix the so-called URI problem, a critical Windows bug that has been exploited by online criminals.read more | digg story
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Internet telephony provider Skype today placed at least part of the blame for a two-day outage last week on Microsoft’s monthly patch update, which was rolled out last Tuesday. In the latest update on the situation, Skype’s Villu Arak said the disruption “was triggered by a massive restart of our users’ computers across [...]
You’ve been warned
Next week’s Patch Tuesday will see Microsoft issue three updates that fix “critical” security vulnerabilities in Windows, Office and the .Net framework. The critical designation is Microsoft’s most severe rating and usually applies to flaws that can allow a computer to be hijacked with little or no interaction on the part of [...]
Seven fixes and that’s your lot
Microsoft plans to release seven patches next Tuesday as part of its regular Patch Tuesday update cycle.…
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Five out of six vulnerabilities patched by Microsoft yesterday, in April’s ’Patch Tuesday’ monthly security update, are labelled ’critical’ and can be used to execute remote code on victim machines. Four of the five affect Windows core systems, while the fifth only affects the Content Management Server. The sixth flaw, labelled only ’Important’, [...]
Microsoft hasn’t outpatched itself; it’s hitting its normally scheduled April 10 Patch Tuesday with four Windows security bulletins, at least one of which is rated critical, according to Microsoft’s Security Bulletin Advance Notification site. The company on April 3 posted a patch, MS07-017, that it had rushed out to fix a critical flaw [...]
On the heels of Tuesday’s early fix for the ANI flaw and other Graphics Device Interface vulnerabilities, Microsoft announced today that it will distribute five security bulletins next Tuesday. The highest severity rating for any of these flaws is “critical,” according to Microsoft. Four of the fixes will affect Windows, while the other [...]
Researchers and customers alike are keeping close tabs on the operating system for the first confirmed vulnerabilityUsers can chalk up a critical vulnerability -- now patched -- in Windows Vista, a Microsoft security manager said Wednesday. Though if people want to get picky, the fix for the company's malware scanning engine isn't really for a flaw in the operating system's core code. And therein lies a debate.The question of whether Vista was patched against its first remote code vulnerability may be academic in the long run, but researchers and customers alike are keeping close tabs on the operating system for the first confirmed vulnerability. Microsoft has repeatedly touted Vista as its most secure version of Windows ever.Tuesday, it released 12 security updates to fix 20 vulnerabilities, 11 of them pegged as "critical" in the company's four-step scoring system. One of the bulletins, MS07-010, patched a critical bug in the malware scanning engine used by Microsoft's security l
