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It’s vulnerability Wednesday – 8 Critical patches to apply

August 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment

Pac IT Pros members: It’s vulnerability Wednesday. Last night Microsoft released 14 bulletins covering 34 serious security vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office, Silverlight, Microsoft XML Core Services and Server Message Block. Make sure you update your servers/workstations. You also might want to take a look at a security advisory to warn of a new elevation of privilege issue in the Windows Service Isolation feature.

iPad/iPhone owners you have a vulnerability too. At this time Apple has not released a patch. Right now the only way to patch you iDevice is to jail it. To jail break your iDevice the jail breaking code makes uses the vulnerability to jail break the phone. Once jail broken you can apply the non-Apple released patch to secure your device. Warning once you secure your device with the non-Apple patch you won’t be able to use the same vulnerability to jail break your iDevice again.


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