14 DAY TRIAL // This month’s Patch Tuesday rollout will bring nine different security bulletins, two of which are rated as critical and developed to fix flaws in Windows and Internet Explorer.
As far as the browser is concerned, Wolfgang Kandek, CTO of Qualys, recommends users to keep an eye on the security updates to be released next week because they should correct major flaws that would allow attackers to compromise a system with the help of a malicious website.
All versions of Internet Explorer will be affected, Microsoft warns, so basically everyone will have to deploy next week’s patches on their computers.
“The most critical patch is Bulletin #1 which affects all versions of Internet Explorer (IE), all the way from IE 6 to the newest IE 11 on Windows 8.1 and RT. Since browsers are the attackers favorite targets, this patch should be top of your list,” Kandek says.
“An attacker would exploit this vulnerability on your users through a malicious webpage. These pages can be on sites that are either set up specifically for this purpose, requiring him or her to attract your users to the site or are on sites that are already under control of the attacker with an established user community, such as blogs and forums.”
As usual, these patches are going to be shipped via Windows Update, so make sure that your computer is connected to the Internet to get them as soon as they’re available.