Microsoft’s August Patch Tuesday security update was a whopper. The software maker released 11 fixes for 26 vulnerabilities, six of which are critical. The remainder were classified as important. The batch of patches was the largest security update from the software company in two years. While 26 vulnerabilities may seem like a large number, it [...]
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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Microsoft plans to release just two security updates next week to fix problems with Windows and other software. Meanwhile, the company says it has received reports from Windows XP and Windows 2003 users that criminals are targeting an unpatched flaw in those operating systems. Microsoft said it is aware of “limited attacks” targeting [...]
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 [...]
Six high priority updates, in all
Microsoft is to issue four critical security fixes for this month’s Patch Tuesday. Three of these affect either Windows Vista or Internet Explorer 7, which the software maker holds out as a paragon of its conversion to secure computing. In all, Microsoft will push six high-priority updates this Tuesday, [...]
Microsoft today issued software updates to plug at least 19 separate security holes in its Windows operating system and other software, including two vulnerabilities that criminals are actively exploiting to take control of Windows PCs. Windows users can install the free updates through the Microsoft Update Web site or via Automatic Updates. All [...]
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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Even if today’s most prominent malicious software writers aren’t particularly clever - waiting until security engineers discover another Windows problem then going after it with a “zero-day exploit” - engineers at McAfee’s Avert Labs believe they may actually be learning about how to use timing to maximize their impact on the public. The [...]
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 and security researchers are investigating reports of several potentially serious bugs affecting Microsoft Office, made public just as Microsoft patched critical flaws in Windows XP, Vista and other software on Tuesday. The fresh vulnerabilities appear as Microsoft is grappling with the side-effects of an out-of-cycle patch rushed out to combat a bug [...]
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
By Alex Zaharov-ReuttMicrosoft is releasing six patches along with an update to their Malicious Software Removal Tool. But with hackers already taking advantage of an unpatched Word flaw, why is Microsoft delaying the repair of this critical flaw?Ah, good ol' Microsoft. Looking after its own interests as usual, and not those of their consumers. One of the reported patches in the upcoming Patch Tuesday is meant to fix a flaw in Windows Media Player. It always seems like whenever there's a flaw that can affect the safety and reputation of the Windows Media Player, software that is inextricably linked to Microsoft's digital rights management programs, a patch is ultra quick to emerge. But when Microsoft's software cash cow of Word has a major flaw that is already being actively exploited… consumers have to wait. This is a ridiculous situation, especially considering the amount of spam that comes with attachments. I've already been receiving "invoices' and "remittanc
Microsoft may have announced eleven updates last Friday for the October Patch Tuesday, but the company has ended up only releasing ten. There were also initial problems with delivery: in a blog entry by the Microsoft security team, Craig Gehre wrote that network problems were preventing the updates from being distributed via Microsoft Update, Automatic Updates, Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) and Windows Update v6 - although technicians were already working on the problem. After a few hours these problems were resolved and automatic updates are working correctly.Of the ten updates actually released, six close critical holes in Windows and Office. One patch removes a hole in the Server Service that is classified as "important", and two updates remove moderate security holes in ASP.Net and in Windows Object Packager, respectively. Another software patch removes a denial of service hole in the TCP/IP stack, a problem classified by Microsoft as having a low priority.The patch for S
Microsoft may have announced eleven updates last Friday for the October Patch Tuesday, but the company has ended up only releasing ten. There were also initial problems with delivery: in a blog entry by the Microsoft security team, Craig Gehre wrote that network problems were preventing the updates from being distributed via Microsoft Update, Automatic Updates, Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) and Windows Update v6 - although technicians were already working on the problem. After a few hours these problems were resolved and automatic updates are working correctly.Of the ten updates actually released, six close critical holes in Windows and Office. One patch removes a hole in the Server Service that is classified as "important", and two updates remove moderate security holes in ASP.Net and in Windows Object Packager, respectively. Another software patch removes a denial of service hole in the TCP/IP stack, a problem classified by Microsoft as having a low priority.The patch for S
