SpydersWorld

For its monthly Patch Tuesday, six bulletins (three critical and three important) will address 15 vulnerabilities, although no patches are offered for Windows 7. Jerry Bryant, security program manager for Microsoft Security Response Center, said: “Customers should plan a restart for the Windows bulletins. The Office bulletins may not require a restart if the components being updated are not in use.” They are really starting to address the ssl issue I told you about in August. They go on to say, “We won’t see anything to remediate this flaw on Patch Tuesday, but if a number of active exploits start to appear in the wild, then we will most likely see out-of-band patches issued from pretty much every vendor as it is such a widely used protocol.” One could assert, the arms race has officially begun.