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A former Microsoft employee who’s now CTO for a patch management firm says an update issued by Microsoft on Tuesday closes a vulnerability that has been exploited for almost seven years and that he first identified while working for the company.

Eric Schultze, who served as a founding member of the Trustworthy Computing team at Microsoft and was a security director for the vendor, says the MS08-068 patch that Microsoft released as part of its monthly Patch Tuesday announcement closes a flaw he first tested at Microsoft in 2001.

An article talking about the Microsoft patch that was recently released, and another gentle reminder to apply all your security patches/hotfixes and remember the server firmware – it’s the first thing your vendor or service provider will ask when logging a call.

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