Microsoft Security Updates - August 2010 Reminder

August was a very important month for security updates and most individuals have most likely applied them.  If you manually update and missed these, please bring your systems up-to-date.  Staying up-to-date on all security patches, moving to IE8, and and building a second Windows account with non-ADMIN rights are all best practices.

In the corporate environment, the LNK vulnerability can provide a malware attack at almost the same level as Conficker, if there are weak internal security settings on workstation or server network shares.  This out-of-band release to better protect Windows was rated as PATCH NOW

Microsoft Security Updates - August 2010
http://blogs.technet.com/b/srd/archive/2010/08/10/assessing-the-risk-of-the-august-security-updates.aspx
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms10-aug.mspx

ISC - Excellent analysis of bulletins
http://isc.sans.edu/diary.html?storyid=9361

ISC - Rates LNK security fix as PATCH NOW
http://isc.sans.edu/diary.html?storyid=9313