Ever dutiful, Microsoft today released its monthly security updates for Windows for August. There are six of them today, ranging from “moderate” to “important” to “critical,” and affecting IE, Microsoft telephony, and RDP, among others, and allowing everything from spoofing to DOSing to the ever present RCE (remote code execution).

The critical updates include a cumulative update for Internet Explorer, affecting pretty much every version of Windows which may still be in use (so don’t dally, just do it), a vulnerability in the Plug-and-Play module which affects XP SP1 and SP2, Win2k SP4, and Windows Server 2003, and a vulnerability in the print spooler service affecting XP SP1 and SP2, Win2k SP4, and Server 2003.

A vulnerability in the Telephony Application Programming Interface (TAPI) has been classified as “important” (which is below critical, but above moderate), and affects XP SP1, SP2, and Professional x64 Edition, Win2k, and Server 2003…

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