Microsoft yesterday released security patches for Windows and Office products on their monthly Patch Tuesday. A total of two security bulletins have been released by Microsoft that patch flaws in Microsoft Excel, Windows Movie Maker and Microsoft Producer 2003. The severity of both security bulletins has been rated as important. Attackers can exploit the issues [...]

Categories: Microsoft, Security, Windows

Microsoft and Adobe have released their regular security updates today. Microsoft has only released one patch for most of its operating system. The patch fixes a vulnerability in the embedded OpenType font engine that could allow remote code execution. The rating of this vulnerability is low for all operating systems but Microsoft Windows 2000 Service [...]

Categories: Adobe, Microsoft

Microsoft has released a new batch of security updates on this month’s Patch Tuesday which patch various security vulnerabilities in Microsoft software products. The vulnerabilities are affecting several popular Microsoft products including various Windows operating systems, Microsoft Internet Explorer and Microsoft Office. Three of the vulnerabilities have a maximum severity rating of critical while the [...]

Categories: Security, Windows

Microsoft yesterday released a security advisory that described a new security vulnerability affecting several Microsoft operating systems. The article, which was posted only a few hours after the release of security patches for this month’s patch-day affects the Microsoft Server Message Block (SMB) implementation. The operating systems that are affected by the new vulnerability are [...]

Categories: Security, Windows

Microsoft has released the Security Bulletin Summary for July 2009 which contains security patches for several Microsoft products. Six security patches are provided by Microsoft this time that include three rated critical and three rated important. Affected programs are Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office, Microsoft ISA Server, Virtual PC and Virtual Server. Affected operating systems are [...]

Categories: Operating Systems, Security, Windows

Microsoft has released the security bulletin summary for June 2009 which details this month’s software and system updates. A total of ten security bulletins have been released this month which patch vulnerabilities in a variety of Microsoft products including various Microsoft Windows operating systems, Microsoft Internet Explorer and Microsoft Office. The easiest way to download [...]

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 released a cumulative security update for Internet Explorer 7 and 8 that fixes several critical vulnerabilities in the web browser. It is recommended to update Internet Explorer as soon as possible to fix those vulnerabilities. The vulnerabilities are rated critical for Internet Explorer versions running under Windows XP or Windows Vista and moderate [...]

Categories: ie, Security

Microsoft released only two patches for their products on this November’s Patch Tuesday. The Microsoft Security Bulletins MS08-069 and MS08-068 patched two vulnerability with the status critical and important. The vulnerability rated as critical could allow remote code execution in the in Microsoft XML Core Services while the vulnerability rated important could allow remote code [...]

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