Microsoft, Adobe, and Oracle Security Update Released.

"One of Microsoft's security vulnerabilities are going to affect everything, from Windows 2000 to Windows 7, but that in critical categories only for Windows 2000," beber Ben Greenbaum (Senior Research Manager, Symantec Security Response). "From the XP SP2 and later products, Microsoft has memerkuat heap memory with a memory heap protection strategy. This makes the security vulnerabilities are less of a problem for systems of more recent," continued Ben.

Meanwhile, Adobe is also scheduled to release a security update. One of the expected update will patch a security vulnerability critical zero-day and affecting the Acrobat Reader (first identified on December 14).

"We see this security vulnerability actively exploited by attackers. At the end of December this attack looks businesses rose sharply and then declined, but we continue to see attacks limited to such exploitation. It is possible that the kinds of exploitation that is more reliable under development," Greenbaum explained.

Following, Oracle also scheduled to release an advisory that will overcome the 24-hour security vulnerabilities as well as part of their security updates. Although this is a moon shining for Microsoft, but because Adobe overcome several security holes, at least one of critical events are also able to improve Oracle's 24 security vulnerabilities, many IT managers have to keep working hard.

Some problems of vulnerability in Symantec eventually spur to encourage users to patch their systems to address this security vulnerability. In addition, companies are encouraged to consider implementing a patch management solution automatically to help overcome these risks. More information, please visit the following Symantec blog.