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"It's totally flat-lined," said Andrew Storms, director of securityoperations at nCircle Security. "The up-and-down is totally gone." This month's Patch Tuesday will fix the largest number ofvulnerabilities -- 28 all told -- this year. In May, Microsoftfixed 23 security flaws. Of the seven updates, Microsoft tagged three as "critical," thehighest threat ranking in its four-step scoring, and the other fouras "important," the next-most serious rating. One update will address all supported versions of IE, ranging fromthe 11-year-old IE6 to last year's IE9; four will affect Windows;and the remaining pair will tackle vulnerabilities in all versionsof Office on Windows and Dynamics AX 2012, an enterprise resourceplanning (ERP) product. Storms singled out the IE update, identified in the advance notification as one of the three critical bulletins, as most likely to climb tothe top of users' to-do lists. "That's going to be the obvious one to deploy first," Storms said,using the long-established logic of security professionals to patchthe browser with haste because of its widespread use and its broadattack surface. Marcus Carey, a security researcher at Rapid7, agreed. "Browserexploits provide the most bang for the buck," Carey said in anemail Thursday. Storms suspected that the IE update will include a patch for one ormore of the bugs used by a French security company to hack thebrowser at the 2012 version of Pwn2Own, an annual contest that pitsresearchers against software for cash prizes. At Pwn2Own, Vupen Security exploited a pair of "zero-day" vulnerabilities to bypass Windows 7's defensive technologies and escape from IE9's"Protected Mode," the browser's limited-rights anti-exploit system. For its work, which included hacks of IE9 and Google's Chrome,Vupen took home $60,000 in prize money. Last year, Microsoft patched the three IE bugs exploited in 2011'sPwn2Own with three separate bulletins shipped in April , June and August. From Storm's perspective, this month is really Microsoft's firstopportunity to patch any of the Vupen zero-days. "April was toosoon," he argued, after the early-March contest. Microsoft's patchdevelopment, as well as the testing of those patches, usually takesmore than 30 days. The other stand-out of the seven updates slated for release nextTuesday is "Bulletin 3," said Storms, because it's marked criticaland applies to all versions of Windows. "It's certainly on my list,because of its criticality and the fact that it applies to all[versions of] Windows up and down the stack," he said. "Anddepending on what it is, it maybe will even take the top spot.". I am an expert from coldrolled-steelcoil.com, while we provides the quality product, such as 201 Stainless Steel Coil , China Spring Steel Strips, Cold Rolled Strip,and more.
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