Microsoft Security Updates: July 28, 2009

Microsoft will be releasing two out-of-band security updates today for potential threats. Because Microsoft is releasing these two bulletins outside their monthly patch cycle, we can assume that the security issues at hand are quite severe.

The notification that Microsoft posted on Friday says the two bulletins released today will give solutions for issues within Microsoft Visual Studio product line and Internet Explorer. The bulletin for the Microsoft Visual Studio product line will address an issue that has negatively affected some kinds of applications. The Internet Explorer update will address issues deep in Internet Explorer that are independent of the Visual Studio issues. Internet Explorer’s issues have been classified as ”Critical,” and solutions will provide extra protection against the security problems found in Visual Studio. Microsoft is being very limited on details until the announcement is made later today. When you keep your system up to date (in the area of security) you will avoid attacks related to these threats.

The bulletins are set to be released on the Microsoft Security Bulletin Summary today at 12:00 noon, Central Time [Update below]. There will also be two sessions for questioning Microsoft by users later today at 3:00 P.M., CT, and 6:00 P.M., CT. Both are available online if you register.

Update [July 28, 2009, 12:30 P.M., CT]: The Microsoft security bulletins MS09-034 and MS09-035 have been released to address problems within Internet Explorer and Visual Studio Active Template Library (ATL).