11 Security Bulletins From Microsoft
Thursday August 21, 2008
For the month of August, Microsoft unleashed 11 new Security Bulletins- 6 of them rated as Critical and 5 Important. There are vulnerabilities affecting a wide range of Microsoft technologies including Active X, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, Internet Explorer, Outlook Express and more. Given the number of new Security Bulletins and the applications they affect, I think it is fairly safe to say that everyone is impacted by at least a few of these. Take a look at the summary below and click the links for more details about the individual Security Bulletins as well as the links to download and apply the appropriate patches or updates. Microsoft Security Bulletins: August 2008
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I am so sick and tired of these “critical” updates from Microsoft you can’t imagine. What a lousy company!!!!!
Lousy company? How are you measuring? Is it because they are up to Security Bulletin #51 for the year, or because they had 6 Critical Security Bulletins this month? Based on your criteria, is there a company that isn’t “lousy”? I ask because Apple recenly released a Highly Critical update for Mac OS X. However, that update addressed not one, but 16 vulnerabilities that were all rated Moderately to Highly Critical. Apple has released 8 updates in 2008, but each update addresses multiple Critical flaws. Mozilla released an update for Firefox 2.0.x in July which was Highly Critical and addressed 13 different vulnerabilities that were rated Highly Critical. Comparitively, it seems Microsoft is perhaps encountering fewer Critical flaws than their competitors. If Microsoft is “lousy”, what adjective would we apply to Apple and Mozilla?
Microsoft isn’t a lousy company. How is bettering their products lousy? I guess if you look at it from the point of there being issues to fix in the first place, but who said software is ever perfect?