Microsoft to issue more critical patches next week for Win7 than XP

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http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9224136/Microsoft_to_issue_more_critical_patches_next_week_for_Win7_than_XP

By Gregg Keizer
Computerworld
February 9, 2012

Microsoft today said it would deliver nine security updates next week, 
four of them critical, to patch 21 vulnerabilities in Windows, Internet 
Explorer (IE), Office, .Net and Silverlight.

This year's February Patch Tuesday will feature three fewer updates and 
one less patch than 2011's.

Four of the nine updates were tagged "critical," the highest threat 
ranking in Microsoft's four-step system, while the other five were 
marked "important," the second-level rating. All of the critical updates 
and two of those pegged important will patch bugs that Microsoft 
admitted could be exploited by attackers to hijack computers and plant 
malware on PCs.

One interesting thing in today's advance notification, said Andrew 
Storms, director of security operations at nCircle Security, was the 
impact on Windows Server 2008 R2, Microsoft's newest server operating 
system.

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