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It's a Big One

If you haven't heard, Tuesday was one of those big-deal Microsoft Patch Tuesdays. Altogether there were eight patches for 23 vulnerabilities. Five of those patches were rated "critical" in Microsoft's vulnerability ranking system. Proof-of-concept code exists for one of the vulnerabilities, making time of the essence for getting systems patched. Do your customers a favor and make sure they're up to date fast on this batch of patches. More information is available here.

Posted by Scott Bekker on April 15, 2009


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