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Adobe Inc. said on Friday that it is planning to release an out-of-cycle update to fix critical security holes in its Reader and Acrobat products, including a fix for a newly disclosed hole that is already being exploited in the wild.

Patches – and plenty of them – took center stage this week as two big software companies shipped substantial updates. Some alarming news also broke regarding the growing number of botnets operating out of the U.S.  Read on for the full week in review.

The Stuxnet buzz continued this week, Adobe took a few steps toward better security and Microsoft announced plans for its largest Patch Tuesday ever. But it wasn’t just Microsoft, Adobe and everyone’s favorite worm grabbing headlines. Read on for the full week in review. Not going away anytime soon; Stuxnet continued to pervade the news […]

It was an extreme version of Patch Tuesday as Microsoft, Adobe Systems, and Oracle released updates that fixed dozens of critical vulnerabilities in their wares.