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Inside Microsoft’s August Patch Tuesday

Microsoft has released their planned 14 bulletins fixing 34 vulnerabilities today. There are four bulletins that administrators should look at patching as soon as possible. Opening a malicious document can lead to remote code execution in Microsoft Word and Microsoft Outlook 2007 can also play a part in exploitation. Microsoft has patched Silverlight in the past, but this patch is more critical than past patches. Patching the Windows Kernel can at times leave the system completely unusable. This many patches can increase network bandwidth, increase the time for the system to run each patch and require reboots.

Source: https://threatpost.com/inside-microsofts-august-patch-tuesday-081010/74317/

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