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Microsoft's Patch Tuesday Update Confronts a BEAST of a Security Flaw
Posted on: 2012-01-13 15:35:51 By Paul Lilly @ HotHardware It's a new year and already the first Patch Tuesday of Microsoft's monthly Windows update schedule has come and gone. If you ignored the update notification sitting your system tray, take a moment to let Windows Update do its thing, and as a reward for kicking procrastination to the curb, Microsoft will get rid of a BEAST that resides on your system. We're not being dramatic, that's in reference to a so-called BEAST SSL security flaw that's among the many patches contained in the seven bulletins for the first Patch Tuesday of 2012. All but one are labeled "Important," and the remaining bulletin -- MS12-004 -- earned a "Critical" designation from Microsoft because of two possible Remote Code Execution vulnerabilities in Windows Media. Read more... |