With a number of security threat loose on the internet, OS developer Microsoft has develop a comprehensive update file that will help users tackle about 34 security vulnerabilities. The security update will include a number of critical updates and will be biggest security update released by Microsoft so far. Microsoft noted that there were a number of loopholes in Internet explorer and Microsoft Office which made computers vulnerable to potential attacks.
Loopholes in the File Transfer Protocol(FTP) of Windows was the most exploited ne by cyber criminals and in a recent survey, it was found out that computers running Windows were the hottest things in cyber fraud and a number of Trojans and viruses have been aimed at the operating system. Security fixes are released every month since 2003 and the second biggest update prior to the one released on the 13th of October was in June 2009 when 31 vulnerabilities were addressed.
This was a massive update. We manage a few hundred servers and had about about 8 fail to come all the way back up after reboot. A second reboot fixed, but it was sort of scary. We manage a lot of servers because we do IT support in Los Angeles and this was a first for us.