Microsoft to clean up after Oracle's patch mess again next week
Microsoft will deliver eight security updates next week to patch dangerous vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer (IE) and the business-critical Exchange Server, as well as less-serious bugs in all versions of Windows.
Experts pushed the IE update to the top of their must-do-ASAP lists.
"That's No. 1, nothing trumps an IE update," said Andrew Storms, senior director of DevOps at San Francisco-based CloudPassage. "Browsers are the most targeted applications." The IE update also got the nod from Wolfgang Kandek, CTO of security vendor Qualys. "This will be the most important bulletin to implement," Kandek wrote in an email. "It affects all versions of IE ranging from IE6 on Windows XP to IE10 on Windows 8 and RT."
