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Microsoft Kills Many Critical Flaws, Some 0-Days, Un-Trusts One Wildcard Cert

Posted by samzenpus on from the protect-ya-neck dept.

An anonymous reader writes: For this December Patch Tuesday, Microsoft has released twelve security bulletins, eight of which have been rated critical. Those refer to the cumulative security updates for Internet Explorer, Microsoft Edge, JScript and VBScript, and updates for Microsoft Windows DNS, Microsoft Graphics Component, Silverlight, Microsoft Office, and Microsoft Uniscribe. Microsoft also released a security advisory announcing the removal of a digital certificate from the Certificate Trust list (CTL).

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  1. Tuesday? by Grishnakh · · Score: -1, Troll

    So if you have some critical security flaw in your Windows system, and they find it and make a patch for it by Wednesday, you have to wait around until the next Tuesday to get it? That sounds like a really stupid security policy which will leave you wide open for hacking for days at a time.

  2. Re:Still one critical flaw around, and MS won't ki by ITRambo · · Score: 1, Troll

    I think Microsoft is driven to shove tiles down people throats for no reason other than they doubled down on Ballmer's betting the company on Windows 8's schizophrenic dual GUI by bundling it into Windows 10 start menu with Candy Crush and other shit.

  3. Since you are too busy butthurting.... by phishybongwaters · · Score: -1, Troll

    I'll go ahead and mention that one of the patches was to revoke the xbox live cert because the private key was leaked, opening ALL xbox users to man in the middle attacks. So yeah, MS is the devil, omfg FREE windows NOOOOOOOOOO theyz tracking us!!!!! But they also did something good here but actually acknowledging this happened and then took action to fix it. I will continue to work and support linux servers and hosts, but I will always been running at least 1 windows box at home. Get over yourselves, seriously, this is getting old and honestly it's become complete fanboyism on your part. Windows 10 isn't the bees knees, but it's also not the steaming pile of bullshit you all ASSUME it is. and I say assume because clearly none of you have even tested a build of win10 because you are still whining about non-existent issues.