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Microsoft Patch Tuesday for December

It’s the second Tuesday of the month and for us in information technology that always means the same thing… It’s Microsoft Patch Tuesday.  This month Microsoft has published 4 patches (3 for the Microsoft Windows operating systems, and one for Active Directory) Here is a list of the four security patches in order of severity:

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Abobe Zero day Exploit discovered

Today Adobe Systems has issued an advisory on a zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2011-2462) that has come been discovered and is actively being exploited. Adobe is reporting that the issue is a U3D memory corruption vulnerability that can be exploited to cause a crash and permit an attacker to hijack a system. So far, there are reports …

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Firefox 8.0 released

Mozilla has just released Firefox 8. This new version now offers several new security features to this popular web browser. Add-on management Firefox 8 users is now much better, , new history window, faster browser loading, and several other great new features. Firefox 8 prompts the user to allow the installation of all add-ons via …

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