While this month’s Patch Tuesday saw a reprieve in the typical onslaught of critical system patches, Microsoft plans to unleash a major update next month that will invalidate old security encryption. Microsoft has been planning to introduce a change to their security certificate program since June when the Flame malware became a problem. The Flame [...]
Earlier this week Microsoft released a number of critical patches for vulnerabilities contained in Microsoft applications. Microsoft releases Tuesday updates regularly but with 28 vulnerabilities, 23 of which are listed as critical, this is the largest Patch Tuesday release in five years. The number of vulnerabilities, while alarming, should be taken as a warning more [...]
Today Microsoft released a Critical patch for its Server Service Applications. The Microsoft Security Bulletin MS08-067 update resolves a vulnerability in the MS server service. The vulnerability makes it possible for a worm or Trojan to freely gain access to your systems. Microsoft has released this patch today “out of band” (not on the regular [...]