Last Patch Tuesday for XP/Office 2003

It's patch Tuesday again. This week Microsoft has released it's last batch of updates for Windows XP and Office 2003 (Server 2003 has another year of support). If you are still running Windows XP it's time to migrate or keep the device off of the network.

Microsoft also released several other patches for other versions of Windows and Office as well as updates for Internet Explorer. Many of these are rated critical and should be installed as soon as possible.

Adobe also released a critical update for Flash Player bringing it to version 13.0.0.182 on most devices. Update this as soon as possible (check your version).

More details on these updates.

Update Tuesday

Seems like the last update Tuesday was only a few days ago but here it is again. Microsoft released several updates including an update to IE 10 that fixes a current exploit being used to take control of computers. Adobe also released an update for Flash Player.

More info on both here.

Update Tuesday

It was update Tuesday yesterday. Microsoft released several patches that fix 31 security issues in Windows. These should be installed as soon as possible.

Adobe also released an update to their Flash Player plugin last week that fixes a critical security issue that was being used to install malware on computers. They also released an update to their Shockwave player that resolves some other security issues.

If you are unsure if you have these plugins installed now would be a good time to check your browser plugins and make sure they are up-to-date. Mozilla has a nice plugin checker.

Update Tuesday (Microsoft, Adobe and Oracle)

It's update Tuesday again. Today updates were released from Microsoft, Adobe and Oracle that fix critical vulnerabilities in Windows (Microsoft), Office (Microsoft), Acrobat (Adobe), AIR (Adobe), Flash Player (Adobe), and Java (Oracle). It's important to install these updates as soon as possible.

Note that the Java update tries to install a toolbar by default. You likely want to un-check that option.

More details on the updates.

Update Tuesday

It seems I forgot to post the last few times. So if you haven't checked your updates recently now is a good time to verify that everything is up-to-date.

From: http://krebsonsecurity.com/2013/12/zero-day-fixes-from-adobe-microsoft/

"Adobe and Microsoft today each separately released security updates to remedy zero-day bugs and other critical vulnerabilities in their software. Adobe issued fixes for its Flash and Shockwave players, while Microsoft pushed out 11 updates addressing at least two dozen flaws in Windows and other software."

Update Tuesday

Last Tuesday was update Tuesday. There were several updates from Microsoft for Windows and Office. There have been reports that one of those updates can take quite a while to install - 30 to 40 min.

There was an update to Adobe Flash Player (11.8.800.168) and Adobe Reader (11.0.4 and 10.1.8) released by Adobe.

Oracle also released an update for Java (Java 7 update 40).

A mostly unremarkable update Tuesday

It's update Tuesday again and this month so far we only have security updates from Microsoft and only three of them have received the highest severity of critical out of eight total bulletins published. Altogether a light Tuesday for updates, we will see what the rest of the month will bring.