Its been since October 2003 that Microsoft have started the tradition of releasing patches for its software products every second Tuesday of every month. The most recent of the series was June 9th which saw a record release of patches.
Looking on the bright side, quite a few patches have been fixed through this group release, but my question would be – how many users were vulnerable and prone to attacks before this date? Last Tuesday’s release had no less than 10 security patches including one for a critical hole found in Internet Explorer 8. This means that before this, everyone using Internet Explorer 8 was an easy prey for hackers. And what tells us that there aren’t more of such holes?
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