Thursday, August 13, 2009

Windows and Mac users, get patching

Five of this week's nine Windows updates are critical. The Office Web Components vulnerability has been exploited for a couple months, and there are five ActiveX Controls that have been targeted by Bad Guys, and are not fixed. You'll want this update.

Run Windows Update and do a reboot, and you'll be up to scratch.

Apple has finally patched the bug-from-hell in bind, the DNS program that maps geeky numeric IP addresses to cool names like borepatch.blogspot.com. Plus a half dozen vulnerabilities in the Safari Web browser. Windows users of Safari will want that fix, too.

Linux users have your automatic updates from Ubuntu, so everything's copacetic, right? Right!

No comments:

Post a Comment

Remember your manners when you post. Anonymous comments are not allowed because of the plague of spam comments.