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Microsoft has released an out-of-band update, KB5061258, on May 16, 2025, elevating Windows 11 to OS Build 26100.3983. This hotpatch addresses critical security vulnerabilities and system stability issues that necessitated immediate attention outside the regular update schedule. Key Highlights...

Severity Rating: Critical Revision Note: V1.0 (October 11, 2016): Bulletin published. Summary: This security update resolves vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer. The most severe of the vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution if a user views a specially crafted webpage using Internet...

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Severity Rating: Critical Revision Note: V1.0 (March 10, 2015): Bulletin published. Summary: This security update resolves vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office. The most severe of the vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution if a user opens a specially crafted Microsoft Office file. An...

Today, as a part of our regular Update Tuesday process, we released four security bulletins – one rated Critical and three rated Important in severity – to address 42 Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures (CVEs) in Microsoft Windows, Internet Explorer, .NET Framework, and Lync Server. We encourage...

Severity Rating: Critical Revision Note: V1.0 (August 12, 2014): Bulletin published. Summary: This security update resolves one publicly disclosed and twenty-five privately reported vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer. The most severe of these vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution...

Severity Rating: Critical Revision Note: V1.0 (July 8, 2014): Bulletin published. Summary: This security update resolves one publicly disclosed vulnerability and twenty-three privately reported vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer. The most severe of these vulnerabilities could allow remote code...

Severity Rating: Critical Revision Note: V2.2 (July 9, 2013): Bulletin revised to announce a detection change in the Windows Vista packages for the 2536276 update to correct a Windows Update reoffering issue. This is a detection change only. Customers who have already successfully updated their...

Severity Rating: Critical Revision Note: V1.0 (July 9, 2013): Bulletin published. Summary: This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in Microsoft Windows. The vulnerability could allow remote code execution if a user opens a specially crafted image...

Severity Rating: Critical Revision Note: V1.0 (July 9, 2013): Bulletin published. Summary: This security update resolves four privately reported vulnerabilities and two publicly disclosed vulnerabilities in Microsoft .NET Framework and Microsoft Silverlight. The most severe...

3 yr old Dell won't self-repair, allow me to restore to a recovery point or use a recovery CD. The testing I did indicated a corrupt registry and some disk error codes. (No new software installations/removals but there was a critical update pushed 7/2.) Frustrated that I can't get it back...

Severity Rating: Critical Revision Note: V1.0 (February 12, 2013): Bulletin published. Summary: This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in the Microsoft implementation of Vector Markup Language (VML). The vulnerability could allow remote code...

Severity Rating: Critical Revision Note: V1.1 (January 8, 2013): Corrected download links for Microsoft XML Core Services 3.0 on Windows Server 2003 with SP2 for Itanium-based Systems and for Microsoft XML Core Services 6.0 when installed on Windows Server 2003 with SP2 for...

Ran Windows Update on wife's computer today (Biostar A75-MH mobo, AMD A8-3850, 8Gb DDR3-1600, 64Gb Samsung 830 SSD boot drive, Win7 x64) and upon restart it froze at 35% installing the updates. After it did nothing for 30 min I rebooted. It boots to the desktop but with an error box saying...

Severity Rating: Critical Revision Note: V1.0 (December 11, 2012): Bulletin published. Summary: This security update resolves one publicly disclosed vulnerability and one privately reported vulnerability in Windows. The most severe of these vulnerabilities could allow...

Severity Rating: Critical Revision Note: V1.0 (November 13, 2012): Bulletin published. Summary: This security update resolves two privately reported vulnerabilities and one public vulnerability in Microsoft Windows. The most severe of these vulnerabilities could allow...

Severity Rating: Critical Revision Note: V1.0 (November 13, 2012): Bulletin published. Summary: This security update resolves two privately reported vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows. The vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution if a user browses to a specially...

Adobe has recently updated the Flash Player version for all platforms to fix some security loop holes and Microsoft has also released an update for Windows 8 to patch the issues in Flash for Internet Explorer 10. This update has updated the integrated Flash Player version for IE 10 of Windows 8...

As previously mentioned in the Advance Notification blog on Thursday, today we’re releasing seven bulletins, one Critical-class and six Important-class bulletins. Before we discuss those releases, let’s take a closer look at the Security Advisories we also released today. Security...

Zdnet.com are running an article concerning security concerns over Windows 8 RTM flash player: Check out the full article here: Microsoft puts Windows 8 users at risk with missing Flash update | ZDNet