Tomorrow's monthly Patch Tuesdayis garnering Microsoft a bit more attention than it's used to for its patch release schedule. One of the fixes, for a security vulnerability in an ActiveX controlaffecting Windows XP or Windows Server 2003, has been expected since early 2008. Read more...

Microsoft has released an out-of-band patch to fix an extremely critical worm hole that exposes Windows users to remote code execution attacks.

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11 updates addressing 20 vulnerabilities were released by Microsoft today. The four critical vulnerabilities affect Excel 2000, IE versions 5 and 6, Host Integration Server, and Windows 2000 Server. Numerous other products are affected with less-severe vulnerabilities. The vulnerabilities fall particularly hard on Windows 2000 server installations.

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