The second Tuesday of a month is Microsoft’s patch day where the software company releases security patches and fixes for its products. The first patch day of the year 2011 brings two security bulletins that patch vulnerabilities in the Windows operating system. MS11-002 patches vulnerabilities in Microsoft Data Access Components that could allow remote code [...]

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Microsoft has released the last set of planned security bulletins for the year 2010 yesterday. A total of 17 security bulletins have been released that patch vulnerabilities in Microsoft products like the Windows operating system, Microsoft Office or Internet Explorer. When we look at the severity rating of those vulnerabilities we notice that two of [...]

Categories: Security, Windows

Microsoft has released information and patches of this month’s patch day. It is promising that there is no patch for Windows in this month’s patch day. The three bulletins that have been released fix security issues in Microsoft Office and Microsoft forefront United Access Gateway. One of the MS Offices bulletins has a maximum severity [...]

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Every second Tuesday in a month is patch day over at Microsoft. What does it mean? Microsoft pushes out all security patches of a month on that day to all users of their Windows operating systems and other applications like Microsoft Office. Only highly critical vulnerabilities receive out of band security patches. This month’s patch [...]

Categories: Security, Windows

Microsoft has just released four security bulletins on this months’ Patch Tuesday fixing vulnerabilities in Microsoft software products. Three of the four bulletins have a maximum severity rating of critical, the highest rated, while one is rated as important. Affected software includes several Microsoft operating systems and Microsoft Office, take a look at the listing [...]

Categories: Security, Windows

The Microsoft security updates for May 2010 are now available for download and installation. Microsoft has released a total of two security bulletins that fix vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office and Microsoft Visual Basic. The maximum severity rating has been set to critical. The critical rating applies only to some operating systems and applications. [...]

Categories: Security, Windows

Microsoft has released its monthly set of security patches yesterday which patch several security vulnerabilities in Microsoft software programs including Microsoft operating systems and Microsoft Office. A summary of the patches can be accessed at the Microsoft website which lists nine security bulletins. Of these nine security bulletins five are rated critical and four important. [...]

Categories: Security, Windows

Just a few minutes ago the patches for this month’s patch day have been uploaded to Windows Update and Microsoft Update. Users are encouraged to update their Microsoft operating system as soon as possible to close the recently discovered security vulnerabilities. Among the affected operating systems are practically all Microsoft operating systems since and including [...]

Categories: Security, Windows

Microsoft has the habit of releasing security patches on one Tuesday each month. Time critical patches can be delivered out of schedule but that did not happen that often in the past. Only one security bulletin has been released on the patch Tuesday in January 2009. Security Bullein MS09-001 has been rated critical for Windows [...]

Categories: Security, Windows