Microsoft issues mammoth security update, biggest in five years

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“Microsoft Corp. today patched 28 vulnerabilities, nearly all of them marked "critical," in the biggest batch of fixes it has issued since it switched to a regular monthly update schedule more than five years ago”

http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9123042

 

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0-day exploit for Internet Explorer in the wild

Already a 0 day exploit!!

http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=5458


“As many of you have seen, there is a new 0-day exploit in the wild affecting Internet Explorer 7 users. This is a new exploit that is being actively exploited and it was not patched yesterday (meaning there is no patch available, yet). Visiting a website with this exploit can result in a full compromise of an affected system.”