Microsoft Releases Massive Batch of Security Updates For October

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Posted by okorioth on 13 Oct 09 - View Comments

Its the second Tuesday of the month, and that of course means in the Microsoft camp its patch Tuesday. And what a whopper this one is, in fact its the largest amount of patches ever released at one time.  The range of patches pretty much covers almost every major product line, from Windows, Server, SQL, [...]

Unprecedented response to major DNS flaw

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Posted by okorioth on 09 Jul 08 - View Comments

Wow, this is simply unheard of.  Yesterday it was publicly revealed that a major design flaw in the DNS protocol was simultaneously patched by vendors across the entire spectrum of the computer and technology world. The fact that they were able to keep this a secret for six months while they worked to plug the [...]