If you follow the blog, you're surely aware that today's Microsoft Patch Day; and it's an especially important one. Though it doesn't set any records, Microsoft has released an update to fix a fairly significant, zero day Internet Explorer (IE) vulnerability, which many attackers have exploited in the wild for the past few weeks. If you can only apply one patch today, I … [Read more...]
Office Updates Fix SharePoint, Outlook, Word, and More
Severity: High Summary: These vulnerabilities affect: Microsoft Office related products, including SharePoint, Outlook, Word, Excel, Access, FrontPage and other components How an attacker exploits them: Varies. Typically by enticing users to open or interact with maliciously crafted Office documents Impact: Many. In the worst case, an attacker can gain complete control of … [Read more...]
Microsoft Black Tuesday: The Largest Patch Day of 2013 (So Far)
Today's Patch Day is the largest so far for 2013, with Microsoft releasing 13 security bulletins. While it doesn't break any records (that Patch Day was probably the 17 bulletin one in April 2011), it's still nothing to sneeze at. Here's today's patch break down. Microsoft's 13 bulletins fix around 47 security vulnerabilities affecting the following products: Internet … [Read more...]
Microsoft Black Tuesday: Patch Windows Kernel-mode Driver and .NET First
Microsoft's July Patch Day is live and ready for download, so go grab those updates. I recommend you work on the Windows Kernel-mode driver and .NET one's first. According to their summary post, Microsoft released seven security bulletins today, six of which they rate as Critical. The bulletins include updates to fix 36 vulnerabilities in many popular Microsoft products, … [Read more...]
Microsoft Black Tuesday: Security Flaws in a Menagerie of Products
Though today's Patch Day might seem pretty average as far as the number of security bulletins released, it does cover a rather eclectic range of Microsoft products. In fact, a few of the updates affect Mac users as well, and one is even exclusive to Mac. During today's Patch Day, Microsoft released seven security bulletins fixing 20 vulnerabilities in the following … [Read more...]