More than 10 security patches from Microsoft due next week

Microsoft plans to ship up to 11 security updates next week for its October's Patch Tuesday. Four of these updates have been rated as critical, and could be exploited remotely. The critical updates involve Active Directory, Internet Explorer, Microsoft Excel, and Microsoft Host Integration Server. Fortunately, the Active Directory fix will affect only Windows 2000 Servers, though the Excel bug affects both the Windows and Mac OS X versions of the product. There are another six updates marked as "Important" with the last update--labeled as "Moderate"--affecting only Office XP SP3 (Service Pack 3). Additional information could be read from Microsoft's advance notification posted yesterday.

For more on the security patches from Microsoft:
- check out this NetworkWorld article