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Critical Updates for Windows, Adobe Flash, Air

Summary: Microsoft released seven update bundles addressing at least 19 vulnerabilities in Windows and related software, four of them rated critical and covering Windows, Internet Explorer, Silverlight, Office and SharePoint. Adobe issued its fourth Flash Player security update in nearly as many weeks, bringing Flash to version 11.6.602.180 on Windows and Mac OS X and fixing at least four flaws, plus a fix for Adobe AIR (version 3.6.0.6090).

What's compelling: Adobe shipped four Flash security updates in nearly as many weeks, and the article notes the auto-updater can take up to a week to deliver a security update - a window in which unpatched Flash, installed on most users' machines, remains exposed.

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