First off is the news that a new “highly critical” security flaw has been found in the Jet database found at the back end of many a Microsoft application. Along with this months obligatory highly critical” Internet Explorer security flaw (3 actually). For those who prefer non Microsoft applications, OpenOffice have just announced that they too have a security flaw this month which can be taken advantage of via a specially crafted .doc file, a patch is in the works. Speaking of patches, if you run Windows Update sometime soon, you should begin downloading a raft of new security patches for Windows including 5 that are critical. Everything from Windows TCP/IP to Exchange gets a look in this month.
