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Ten MS Security Bulletins for Tomorrow's June Patch Day
7 June, 2010 -- Tomorrow, expect a patch packed Microsoft
Black Tuesday. According to
their Advance
Notification, Microsoft plans to release ten security bulletins,
fixing flaws in Windows, Office, and Internet Explorer (IE). They rated
three of the flaws as Critical, and the rest as Important.
In Microsoft-land, Critical updates typically fix flaws that allow
remote attackers to gain control of your computer, with little to no
user interaction; important updates still correct issues that sometimes
allow code execution, but they also tend to require more user
interaction for attacks to succeed. In any case, you will want to patch
all of Microsoft's flaws as soon as possible, putting a slight
priority on the Critical ones. That said, I recommend you test
tomorrow's patches on non-production test machines before deploying
them throughout your network.
We'll know more about Microsoft bulletins tomorrow, probably around
11am PST,
and will publish alerts about them via LiveSecurity and LiveSecurity
Informer.
On an aside, Adobe also uses the second Tuesday of every month as
thier patch day. You might want to keep an eye out for some Adobe
alerts tomorrow as well. -- Corey
Nachreiner, CISSP
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