Bulletins Affect Windows Media components, CSRSS, SSL/TLS, and More Severity: High Summary: These vulnerabilities affect: All current versions of Windows and components that ship with it How an attacker exploits them: Multiple vectors of attack, including enticing your users to download and open malicious media, documents, or other files. Impact: Various results; in the … [Read more...]
Seven Microsoft Security Bulletins in January; Two Fix Issues in Security Mechanisms
Like clockwork, Microsoft has posted the first Patch Day of the new year. In a word, I'd summarize it as average. As they forewarned in their advanced notification last week, Microsoft released seven security bulletins today, which include six updates for Windows and one update for a Microsoft development tool (specifically an AntiXSS library). They only rate one of the … [Read more...]