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Microsoft Leaks Patch Tuesday Details Ahead of Schedule
Posted on: 2011-09-12 16:21:42 By Paul Lilly @ Maximum PC Microsoft routinely issues advance notifications for its monthly Patch Tuesday update days before it goes live, that's not unusual. But the Redmond software outfit typically doesn't reveal the full extent of the patches through official "bulletins" until the day of release, which makes the weekend leak highly unusual. The bulletins should have went live around 10AM Pacific/1PM Eastern tomorrow, September 13, but instead were posted over the weekend. You still have to wait until tomorrow to download the actual updates, which will stomp out 15 security bugs, each one rated "important." Two of them affect Windows, five apply to Excel, two apply to non-application Office components, and six have to do with SharePoint and related software. Read more... |