Microsoft pencils in two patches for next week
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Microsoft said the updates will fix two flaws in Windows, one rated "critical," the company's most serious ranking, and the other rated "important." the next-lower ranking.
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Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday released several security fixes for its Windows operating system and Office software, and rereleased two previous patches.
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More than two dozen patches will be in the quarterly update scheduled for release Tuesday.
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Forget the Monday morning blues. For Windows administrators, the second Tuesday of the month has become the day to dread. That&#39;s the day when Microsoft releases its monthly package of patches.
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Changes aim to address Google antitrust concerns. Also: Redmond talks for first time about when service pack will arrive.
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A stitch in time... Microsoft this week pushed out a patch to resolve a flaw in its patching system.â¦
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Incremental fixes Microsoft pushed out a series of five patches for Vista early this week.â¦
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'Secure Development Lifecycle' only goes so far Microsoft on Tuesday issued two security updates, one of them rated critical that fixes nasty bugs in Windows Vista that could allow an attacker to gain complete control over a user's machine.â¦
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A day after Microsoft announced it would give customers early warning of impending patches, the Redmond, Wash.-based developer fleshed out its heads-up with a notice that next Tuesday&#39;s patches
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(InfoWorld) - With hackers exploiting unpatched vulnerabilities in its Windows and Office software, Microsoft plans to issue 11 security updates next Tuesday. Some of the Office and Windows updates will be for critical flaws that could be exploited by attackers with no action on the part of users. Six of the patches will be for Windows, and four of them will be for Office, MicrosoftÂ said Thursday in a note on its Web site. The 11th update will be for a flaw in Microsoft's .Net framework, which is considered less severe than the critical Windows and Office patches. Hackers have been keeping Microsoft's Security Response Center busy this past month. Microsoft generally issues its security patches on the second Tuesday of every month, but last weekÂ the company was forced to issue a rare, "out-of-cycle" security patchÂ after criminals began exploiting a flaw in Internet Explorer's VML (Vector Markup Language) rendering engine. And security experts have also warned of cyberattacks based on unpatched flaws in PowerPoint, Word 2000 and in an ActiveX control (called WebViewFolderIcon) used by the Windows' graphical user interface software. The WebViewFolderIcon flaw will be patched Tuesday, Microsoft said. Attacks that take advantage of this flaw have been seen on the Internet, the SANS Internet Storm CenterÂ warned earlier this week. Â
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(InfoWorld) - Microsoft Corp. plans to patch its Windows and Visual Studio products next week, but it does not have a fix in the works for aÂ widely publicized flaw in Word, which hackers are reportedly exploiting in targeted attacks. The company's security team is readying five sets of patches for Windows, and will also issue a single critical security update for Visual Studio, Microsoft said in an alert published Thursday. Microsoft rates the most serious of its Windows updates as "critical," meaning an attacker could exploit the underlying flaw to run malware on a victim's PC with no user action, the company said. These security patches are usually released on the second Tuesday of each month, and the company strives to publish a small number of updates in December, because IT operations are often short-staffed during the holiday season. On Tuesday, Microsoft warned of a vulnerability in its Word software that had been reportedly used in online attacks. Security researchers rated this flaw critical, because an attacker could exploit it to run malicious software on a victim's PC. For such an attack to work, however, the victim would first have to be tricked into opening a maliciously encoded Word file. The Word flaw is not scheduled to be patched next Tuesday, said a spokesman for Microsoft's public relations firm. There is, however, one critical Visual Studio flaw that may be addressed in the updates. That bug is in Visual Studio 2005's WMI Object Broker ActiveX object. It was first reported in late October.
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Slew of Patch Tuesday security updates will include "critical" fixes for Windows, Office and Microsoft's security tools.
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Lots of fireworks Microsoft plans to release 12 patches next Tuesday (13 February) as part of its regular monthly security update cycle.â¦
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InfoWorld - Microsoft has quietly released a patch aimed at improving the performance of Internet Explorer 7&#39;s phishing filter ahead of the company&#39;s regular patching schedule, which occurs on the second Tuesday of every month.
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OCTOBER 12, 2004  - Microsoft Corp.&#39;s monthly patch release cycle may be making it more predictable for users to deploy software updates, but there appears to be little letup in the number of holes being discovered in the company&#39;s software
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Blog: The first update for Windows Vista could enter testing as early as next week, according to reports.
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Blog: Patches include the Firefox portion of the IE-Firefox flaw identified last week.