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2 days agoMicrosoft frightful Patch Tuesday: 175+ CVEs, 3 under attack
Spooky season is in full swing, and this extends to Microsoft's October Patch Tuesday with security updates for a frightful 175 Microsoft vulnerabilities, plus an additional 21 non-Microsoft CVEs. And even scarier than the sheer number of bugs: three are listed as under attack, with three others publicly known, and 17 deemed critical security holes. Let's start with the flaws that attackers already found and exploited before Redmond pushed patches.
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