Did you miss Microsoft Patch Tuesday?
Microsoft on Tuesday released nine security bulletins that patched 14 separate vulnerabilities for Windows and Internet Explorer, including several that could easily end up being exploited in short order by attackers. If you have not patched your system please do right now by clicking the link below to visit Microsoft.
Of the three bulletins tagged “Critical,” the highest rank in Microsoft’s four-step scale, the one that looks the most serious to security experts is MS05-051, which covers four vulnerabilities, two of which may soon be exploited. One of the two critical vulnerabilities in the bulletin is within the Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator (MSDTC), code that’s used to coordinate any sort of transaction on multiple servers, such as database queries. “It’s a service used primarily in enterprises,” said Neel Mehta, the team lead of Internet Security Systems’ (ISS) X-Force research group. “You don’t see it much on smaller-scale servers or desktops.”
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