Posted on 08/11/2015 6:11:17 PM PDT by dayglored
Update Windows, Office, IE, Edge and Adobe Flash now – plus OpenSSH
Patch Tuesday - Microsoft has released 14 sets of software patches to address critical security vulnerabilities in Windows, Office, Internet Explorer, and Edge. Yes, even Edge: Microsoft's supposedly whizzbang super-secure web browser.
Users and sysadmins should apply August's Patch Tuesday fixes as soon as possible: the bugs can be exploited to remotely execute code on vulnerable systems, allowing miscreants to hijack computers and install malware by tricking people into opening documents and webpages. Plugging in a malicious USB device can grant an attacker administrator privileges on Windows PCs.
The full update includes:
[The article goes on at length about 14 critical and other patches and fixes.)If Microsoft's fixes weren't enough, Adobe has posted an update to fix 34 CVE-listed vulnerabilities in Flash Player. Users running Flash on Windows, OS X, and Linux should update (or disable or set as click-to-run) the Adobe Flash player.
Finally, OpenSSH 7.0 has been released, which fixes four security bugs and bans password-based root logins by default.
(Excerpt) Read more at theregister.co.uk ...
Yeah but that one says July 2015 wonder where the August one is at :-)
Flash is built in to latest IE also
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