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Patch Tuesday doozie includes news of SSL hole

As expected, this month's Patch Tuesday is a doozie. Microsoft released 13 bulletins to fix 26 vulnerabilities in Windows and Microsoft Office. This includes the first Hyper-V-specific patch. But wait, there's more. Microsoft also issued a security advisory over a publicly-known vulnerability in the Transport Layer Security (TLS) and Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocols. As an issue affecting an Internet standard, Microsoft says that the problem affects multiple vendors. The hole affects nearly every Windows version including Windows 7 and the Server Core version of Windows Server 2008 R2.

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  • Microsoft to shut off free versions of Windows 7 soon Submitted by Microsoft Subnet on Tue, 02/09/2010

    On March 1, users of the free, release candidate versions of Windows 7 will experience bi-hourly shut downs, Microsoft says. These shut downs will continue until June 1. On June 1, the RC version has officially expired. Microsoft will replace the wallpaper with a background that says the copy of Windows is not genuine.

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  • Startup Huddle wins Microsoft's SharePoint 2010 contest Submitted by Microsoft Subnet on Fri, 01/29/2010

    On Friday, Microsoft announced that Huddle was the winner of a weeklong, invitational contest, in which seven startups were challenged to build a social app for SharePoint 2010 in just one week. But all seven applications had wow power. Huddle won for its SharePoint add-in that lets enterprise teams invite external users into their daily SharePoint workflow, synchronize their SharePoint document libraries with content stored on the Huddle network, or even on other SharePoint sites. SharePoint users can also gain access to their files through Huddle’s online, mobile and desktop applications.

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Microsoft fixes 26 security holes, warns on unpatched multi-vendor SSL vulnerability As expected, today's Patch Tuesday is a doozie. Microsoft released 13 bulletins to fix 26 vulnerabilities in Windows and Microsoft Office. This includes the first Hyper-V-specific patch. But wait, there's more. Microsoft also issued a security advisory (977377) over a publicly-known vulnerability in the Transport Layer Security (TLS) and Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocols. As an issue...

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