Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday issued an unprecedented number of updates to fix security problems in PCs powered by its Windows operating systems and other software: The software giant released patches to plug at least 34 security holes, the highest number of vulnerabilities it has ever addressed in a single month.
October's batch of patches offer a little something for all Windows users, fixing security issues in Windows applications from the Internet Explorer (IE) browser and Microsoft Silverlight, to Microsoft's Internet Information Services (IIS) server, said Tyler Reguly, lead security research engineer at security vendor http://www.ncircle.com/.
"Again we see a month of client-side issues in almost every major Microsoft product," Reguly said. "Whether you run Office, Windows Media Player, Internet Explorer, .NET or just Windows itself, there's a vulnerability for you."
Two-thirds of security holes addressed this month earned Microsoft's "critical" rating - it's most severe. Microsoft labels a security flaw critical if bad guys can exploit it remotely to take complete control over a Windows system, without any help from the victim.
