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This month’s Microsoft Updates includes an interesting vulnerability: Microsoft Security Bulletin MS11-083 “This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in Microsoft Windows. The vulnerability could allow remote code execution if an attacker sends a continuous flow of specially crafted UDP packets to a closed port on a target system.” A continuous flow of UDP […]

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Hello, welcome to this month’s blog on the Microsoft patch release. This is a small month—the vendor is releasing four bulletins covering a total of four vulnerabilities. Only one of this month's issues is rated ‘Critical’ and it affects the Windows TCP/IP stack. It potentially can be exploited to completely compromise an affected computer. The […]

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Yesterday was Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday for the month of October. There were a total of eight new security bulletins–not too many, but enough to keep IT admins busy for a while. While most of the vulnerabilities addressed are not imminent threats, security experts are virtually unanimous that patching Internet Explorer should be priority one. First, […]

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