So Microsoft has released their advanced notification of this coming Tuesdays patches. It looks like we're expecting 12. Given the current list of unpatched public vulnerabilities, Microsoft has some serious catching up to do... even if the assumption were made that all 12 patches were based on public exploits (which won't be the case)... they'd still be behind.

Tuesdays breakdown looks like this:

• 5 x Microsoft Windows (Highest Severity: Critical)


• 2 x Microsoft Office (Highest Severity: Critical)


• 1 x Microsoft Windows & Microsoft Visual Studio (Severity: Important)


• 1 x Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office (Severity: Important)


• 1 x Step-by-Step Interactive Training (Severity: Important)


• 1 x Microsoft Data Access Components (Severity: Critical)


• 1 x Windows Live OneCare, Microsoft Antigen, Microsoft Windows Defender, and Microsoft ForeFront (Severity: Critical)

We'll be here on Tuesday, all day (and night), providing our insight as we work through the released patches, so stop by and say "hi".