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Post-Holiday Patch Tuesday

Hopefully you all had a relaxing long holiday weekend, but now it's back to the grind. And today is patching time again as Microsoft plans to roll out four fixes.

Fortunately, they're all only "important," which is far less serious than "critical."

SQL Server is getting protection against elevation-of-privilege attacks, and Microsoft continues to plug remote code execution flaws.

Posted by Doug Barney on July 08, 2008


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