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Microsoft Monthly Patch Tuesday Brings Dozen of Fixes

Microsoft Monthly Patch Tuesday Brings Dozen of Fixes

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Today's Tuesday and with it comes Microsoft's patch process with 12 fixes in the pipeline including seven which have been classified as critical, pertaining both to Office and Windows.The critical vulnerabilities affect Internet Explorer and Media Player on all contemporary operating systems (Windows 2000, XP and Vista, Windows Server 2003 and 2008); as it is the case in most breaches, the patches deal with remote code execution which allows a hackers to control a...



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