Expect 12 Microsoft Patches Next Week

With HP wireless printers, you could have printed this from any room in the house. Live wirelessly. Print wirelessly. Microsoft says it will deliver a dozen security updates next week to fix critical vulnerabilities in Windows, Office, Internet Explorer (IE) and the media player bundled with Vista. Of the 12 updates it sketched out in the advance notification issued last week, Microsoft pegged seven as "critical," its highest threat rating. The remaining five were labeled "important," the second-highest ranking. "We almost have a baker's dozen," said Andrew Storms, director of security operations at nCircle Network Security Inc. "What struck me was the complete depth of Microsoft software that the updates will touch this month." As is its practice, Microsoft divulged little information about each update, limiting the... [read full story]                    

Add Comment
There are also 44 related articles
View all news articles about*:
*Newstin tag cloud displays all featured persons, associated organisations, related topics, regions and companies