January 2011 Security Bulletin Release

If you are running Windows and you want to know what just got plugged and what is still vulnerable, check out Microsoft's Security Response Center for details on the January 2011 Security Bulletin. For those of you too lazy to click, here's a quote:

•MS11-001. This bulletin resolves one reported issue rated Important and affecting Windows Vista. This security bulletin addresses a vulnerability in Windows Backup Manager. This has an Exploitability Index rating of 1, and gets a 2 on our deployment priority list.

•MS11-002. This bulletin addresses two vulnerabilities affecting all supported versions of Windows. The first vulnerability is rated Critical for Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7 and the second rated Important for all supported versions of Windows Server. It involves the Microsoft Data Access Components (MDAC). This has an Exploitability Index rating of 1, and because there is a web based attack vector, this is at the top of our deployment priority list.

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