IE, GDI flaws good place for IT to start Patch Tuesday cleanup, experts say

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MS changes tune, says attackers are exploiting new bug One of the 34 bugs Microsoft patched on Tuesday is more serious than it first appeared. In six years of Patch Tuesdays, 400 security bulletins, 745 vulnerabilities Microsoft's massive security update for October marked the completion of the sixth year of the company's move to a monthly patch release schedule. Patch Tuesday whopper: 13 patches (8 critical), plus one surprise patch for XML Microsoft released 13 security bulletins to address 34 vulnerabilities for its October Patch Tuesday. It also included a surprise re-release of one bulletin that adds new fixes to a year-old patch of Microsoft XML Core Services. Server 2008 R2's Best Practices Analyzer Windows Server 2008 R2 contains something called the "Best Practices Analyzer," which is not exactly one thing but a combination of things built around something called the BPA engine. 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