14 DAY TRIAL // Microsoft announced this A.M. that Patch Tuesday would bring a total of 10 different security bulletins supposed to fix 33 vulnerabilities in Windows, Internet Explorer and Office.
Even though the company hasn’t mentioned it clearly, Patch Tuesday would most likely bring a fix for the recently-discovered Internet Explorer 8.0 zero-day flaw that has been used to attack a large number of servers, including computers used by United States’ nuclear weapon researchers.
“Bulletin 2 is for the recent IE 8 0-day and is rated “critical” for granting RCE and should be on the top of your list if you are on IE8, which, according to our BrowserCheck statistics, still accounts for about 43 percent of users,” Wolfgang Kandek, CTO of security firm Qualys, said.
Two updates are labeled critical and are meant to fix issues in Internet Explorer and Windows, with every single version of the operating system scheduled to receive security improvements.