Another month skates by, and another pile of Patch Tuesday updates rolls out overnight from Microsoft. This time around, the pile of critical updates is just three downloads deep.
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The three critical updates relate to Internet Explorer (I’m doing my unshocked face here), group policy and kernel-mode drivers. No surprise then that they will also require a restart. There are also four “important” updates for Windows, and two for Microsoft Office.
What jumps out from the disclosure announcement is this sentence: “This security update resolves one publicly disclosed and forty privately reported vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer.” Looks like Project Spartan, IE’s successor, can’t come soon enough.
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2 responses to “Patch Tuesday: Internet Explorer Has 41 Problems (But A Glitch Ain’t One)”
Zing! I come for the headlines and stay for the stories.
Spartan will have its own share of exploits I am sure. Having new code means less exposure but not necessarily fewer vulnerabilities.
And yes, they should just keep the browsers name, why run a campaign to invent a new one?