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Microsoft Corporation let out a great number of updates to fix problems of security in PCs powered by its Windows operating systems and other software:
It’s offered by October’s batch of patches for Windows users, installing security issues in Windows applications from the Internet Explorer browser and Microsoft Silverlight, to Microsoft’s Internet Information Services server.
Taking into consideration that threat is the fact that information about how one might exploit several of these flaws has already been released online.
According to Kandek the description of updates had various indication that attackers were aware of these vulnerabilities and in case they did no use them it would be easier to come up with exploits for most of them.
Among the flaws patched in this month’s release is a set of vulnerabilities in the file-sharing capability of Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 systems. This issue attracted much attention last month.
Microsoft also let out a patch to address a clear security weakness in a Microsoft component responsible for handling Web site encryption certificates. On Monday, someone published online a template that other hackers could used to forge SSL certificates for Paypal.com.
Microsoft fixed at least four IE-specific vulnerabilities, including one for an IE flaw that was publicly disclosed prior to today. Fixes are available for all versions of Internet Explorer.
Updates can be done via Windows Update Web site, or through Automatic Updates.

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