Posted on 10/12/2014 12:22:15 PM PDT by Utilizer
October is stacking up to be a bumper Patch Tuesday update with nine bulletins lined up for delivery — three rated critical.
Cloud security firm Qualys estimates two of the lesser "important" bulletins are just as bad however, as they would also allow malicious code injection onto vulnerable systems.
Top of the critical list is an update for Internet Explorer that affects all currently supported versions 6 to 11, on all operating system including Windows RT. Vulnerabilities discovered in most versions of Windows Server, Windows 7 and 8, and the .NET framework are covered in the other pair of critical bulletins.
Qualys argues that two of the five "important" updates being primed for release cover Remote Code Execution (RCE)-type bugs. The vulnerabilities are of a type that allow hackers to take control of machines and execute arbitrary code, usually a Remote Access Trojan (RAT) or similar.
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Seams every month MS, Oracle and Adobe put out security patches. You’d think that they would eventually figure out how to secure their s/w.
Seems every month MS, Oracle and Adobe put out security patches. You’d think that they would eventually figure out how to secure their s/w.
What are the Brits carring on about these updates? Compared to computers 20 years ago, computering is painless—no downloading crap onto floppies and all that PITA gibberish. I had to flash a BIOS as it got FUBAR’ed and that was a bit stress-y but once done, it worked fine. The only option was buy a new BIOS chip for $80, back in ‘97! The main thing these days is you gotta just watch where you stick yer mouse to avoid virii!
It would be nice. What is more worrisome I think is that most of the problems found, at least as far as the m-soft products are concerned, have historically been due to the diligence of the ‘nix coders. Sometimes without any acknowledgement from MS at all.
I would not go so far as to call it “painless”. Too, many of the patches deal with software ‘exploits’ that can affect you no matter where you browse.
OK, that was worth a snicker. *grin*
Yes, to what you said, I meant painless as to how computers update themselves and such, a far cry from days of olde...
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