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

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. Re:Tuesday? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's the Wimpy security remediation model -- "I'll gladly fix on Tuesday that security vulnerability you found today..."