Microsoft has released four security bulletins for July 2008, two of which are for desktops.
MS08-038 addresses a vulnerability in Windows Explorer and is for Windows Vista and carries an “important” rating. The update includes the original Vista, Vista SP1 and Vista x64.
MS08-037 addresses a vulnerability in DNS and is for Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP [...]
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Another "Super Tuesday" patched this week but I just got around to firing up my Windows VM’s today (actually it’s been about 12 days since I’ve been in Windows). There were ten updates waiting for me on Windows Vista and eight on Windows XP Home, although not all were security related.
This month’s updates included:
KB945553 [...]
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Microsoft has released 4 security bulletins for March. All are for Office products and all are rated critical for one or more of the affected products. There weren’t any OS or IE updates this month. Since I don’t run any Office products I didn’t install any Microsoft updates this month, but these were the [...]
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Microsoft released 11 security bulletins for February 2008, six are rated critical and five are important. My Windows XP Pro SP2 installation received the following updates through Windows Update:
MS08-010 - Cumulative Update for Internet Explorer (critical)
MS08-007 - Vulnerability in WebDAV Mini-Redirector Could Allow Remote Code Execution (critical)
MS08-008 - Vulnerability in OLE Automation Could Allow [...]
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Apple released Security Update 2007-009 for OS X 10.4.11 Tiger and OS X 10.5.1 Leopard on Monday. The Apple support article lists 41 vulnerabilities that were patched. Patched components include Core Foundation, CUPS, Flash Player Plug-in, Launch Services, perl, python, Quick Look, ruby, Safari, Samba, Shockwave Plug-in, and Spin Tracer. The update requires a [...]
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Yesterday was patch Tuesday for December and Microsoft released seven security bulletins. There weren’t any Office updates but there were updates for all supported OS’s - Windows 2000 Professional SP4 to Windows XP SP2, and Windows Vista - along with updates for Internet Explorer 6 and IE 7. All the updates are available through [...]
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