MS-DEFCON 2: Six more Security Bulletins

Microsoft just announced its payload for December Black Tuesday. I just love the new graph they’re publishing every month. Sure looks impressive, doesn’t it? Unfortunately, I don’t see how it gives Microsoft’s customers any useful information.

Far better, as usual, is the SANS Internet Storm Center summary. From that source, it’s obvious that there’s not too much happening, as long as you don’t use Internet Explorer. Which you don’t, right?

There aren’t any known exploits for any of the patches, other than the inevitable IE patch, MS09-072.

As is my wont, I’m moving us up to MS-DEFCON 2: Patch reliability is unclear. Unless you have an immediate, pressing need to install a specific patch, don’t do it.

Let’s see what shakes out.