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Microsoft Black Tuesday: Thirteen security bulletins make for an
unlucky February Patch Day
9 February, 2010 -- After last month's meager
Patch Day, Microsoft returns with a vengence, releasing an unlucky thirteen
security updates.
This morning, Microsoft released thirteen security bulletins,
fixing over 26 vulnerabilities in Windows and Office. Microsoft rates
four of the
bulletins as Critical, seven as Important and one as Moderate.
In Microsoft-land, Critical-rated Security Bulletins usually fix
flaws that could allow remote
attackers to gain control of your Windows computers, so I recommend you
apply Microsoft's Critical Windows updates first. Next, install the two
Office patches. Though they only fix "Important" vulnerabilities, the
flaws still allow attackers to gain control of your computer with a
little user interaction. Finish up with the remaining Important and
Moderate Windows updates.
You can learn more about these security bulletins from the tables
provided in Microsoft's
Bulletin Summary for February. Microsoft's tables (arranged in
order of severity) link directly to this month's bulletins and patches.
Expand the "Affected Software and Download Location" section of the
Summary to find a valuable table that will help you develop your own
deployment strategy.
LiveSecurity and LiveSecurity Informer subscribers will
receive more detailed information about most of these flaws, and how to
fix them, in alerts
we're working on right now. -- Corey Nachreiner,
CISSP
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