Tuesday, December 29, 2009

The Five Essential Security Patches of 2009

To find out the most essential security patches of 2009 Computerworld polled a panel of patch and vulnerability experts to find the five security fixes everyone should deploy from the last 12 months.

The five essential patches are:
- Microsoft's ATL fixes, July and later (MS09-035)
- Latest Adobe Reader patch (here, at the moment one from October but Adobe has promised new patch in the middle of January)
- Microsoft .Net Framework, October (MS09-061)
- SMBv2, October (MS09-050)
- Conficker patch (MS08-067) from last year but still essential to have installed

Read the whole article here.

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