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Microsoft Issues Massive Security Bulletin
And just in case you don't believe it's insane, check out this handy chart, which provides a matrix of the security fixes and the products they affect: Yep, it's that time of the month. Here's the official word: Today, as part of its routine monthly security update cycle, Microsoft is releasing 11 security... »
End of Support for Windows Vista RTM and Recent Service Pack Support Policy Updates
I mentioned the end of support for Windows Vista RTM (i.e. the pre-Service Pack 1 version) in this week's Mailbag , but if you missed it, here's the news from Microsoft, along with some information about changes the company is making to its Service Pack Support policy. Today, Windows Vista RTM has reached... »
Assessing the risk of the April Security Bulletins
Today we released eleven security bulletins with security updates addressing 25 CVE’s. Five of the bulletins have at least one CVE rated Critical. We hope that the table below helps you prioritize this month’s deployment. »
MS10-020: SMB Client Update
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Assessing the risk of the December security bulletins
This morning we released six security bulletins, three Critical and three Important, addressing 12 CVE’s. Please apply the Internet Explorer update right away as it poses the most risk of all the bulletins due to severity and exploitability. The Internet Explorer update addresses the vulnerability described by Security Advisory 977981 »
MS09-056: Addressing the X.509 CryptoAPI ASN.1 security vulnerabilities
MS09-056 addresses two vulnerabilities that affect how the Windows CryptoAPI parses X.509 digital certificates. Applications on the Windows platform as well as Windows components such as the WinHTTP API can call into the CryptoAPI which provides cryptographic services to validate digital certificates. »