It’s the second Tuesday of July and that means patches from Microsoft. This month brings six patches, three rated critical, two important, and one moderate. Only five of the patches (and only two of the critical patches) are for desktops. The sixth patch only affects server operating systems. Windows Vista also gets its own unique [...] Read more »
Microsoft Patch Tuesday for June 2007
Microsoft released six security patches today. Four of them were rated critical, one important and one moderate. There are patches for all supported desktop OS platforms, Internet Explorer, a couple mail apps and for a couple versions of Visio. There aren’t any Office patches. The four critical desktop patches are: MS07-031 for Windows XP SP2, [...] Read more »
May 2007 Patch Tuesday
Microsoft released five critical security bulletins for desktop software today. In line with a growing trend, 3 of the 5 were for application software and not operating systems. Most of the vulnerabilities were also intended to be exploited through a website. Mac users also take notice since Office 2004 for the Mac is also vulnerable [...] Read more »