The Redmond company announced 3 security bulletins for the upcoming Patch Tuesday next week. These are meant to fix at least 4 security vulnerabilities. One flaw which affects Windows from XP to Windows 7 as well as Windows Server 2008 R2 is rated “critical” which means that attackers can smuggle in malware quite easily; a second bulletin deals with at least “important” vulnerabilities in the Windows operating systems. The third bulletin is about Microsoft Office – in Groove 2007 there is an “important” rated flaw to be  fixed.

Users and Administrators should prepare to install those updates as soon as possible upon release next Tuesday.

Dirk Knop
Technical Editor

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