As part of its regular “Patch Tuesday” cycle, Microsoft has released a number of fixes for a number of its widely deployed products to patch critical security vulnerabilities.
Eight of the critical patches, addressing vulnerabilities in Windows, Microsoft Office, Internet Explorer, Silverlight, SQL Server, Forefront, Visual Studio, and other products, aim to stop hackers dead in their tracks from launching malicious attacks remotely.
A further five of the patches are classified as “important.”
In total, 34 security holes are fixed in what is Microsoft’s largest ever bundle of Patch Tuesday security updates.
Microsoft’s security response center has also released a chart, showing the severity of each vulnerability. “Red” means “critical” – in other words, that’s as bad as thing gets.
So the amount of “red” you see below should be a…
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