Hackers respond to Patch Tuesday with exploits

Microsoft may have rolled out 15 patches this week but the company's game of cat and mouse with hackers is far from over. Instead of a pat on the back, hackers responded to Patch Tuesday with what ZDnet's Ryan Naraine is calling "Exploit Wednesday": three proof-of-concept exploits within 24 hours of Microsoft's patch releases. "Two of the three target gaping holes in the dominant Internet Explorer browser--flaws that could be exploited by simply luring the target to surf to a Web page." The good news is that all of these vulnerabilities were patched on Tuesday--though there are likely plenty of unpatched systems out there. Make sure that none of them live in your enterprise.

For more on the exploits:
- see this ZDnet article
- and be sure to read these Microsoft security bulletins: MS07-033 | MS07-031