It is the second Tuesday of the month which means it is patch day over at Microsoft. The Redmond based company has released a total of four security bulletins that month. One bulletin has received a maximum severity rating of critical, while the three others one of important. The critical vulnerability addresses a issue in [...]

Categories: Security, Windows

Some Windows users have reported restart issues installing the February security updates for their operating system. A recent blog post at the Microsoft Security Response Center suggests that the problems occurred for the users after installing the patch MS10-015. Jerry Bryant, the Senior Security Communications Manager, states that Microsoft has not yet ” confirmed that [...]

Categories: 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

Offline Update is a software program that can be used to download all available updates for various Microsoft operating systems and Office suites. New features of version 6 are the option to download all available updates running Linux which might come in handy for some system administrators who work with Linux and Windows computer systems. [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Microsoft releases security bulletins once a month that outline new security updates and patches for Microsoft products. The security updates for April 2009 list a total of eight vulnerabilities for various Microsoft applications including Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office. Six of the eight patches affect various Microsoft operating systems. Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 [...]

Categories: Software, 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