In a Microsoft Security Bulletin released late last week, 12 new security updates have been planned for release this Tuesday. Seven of those updates have been labeled as critical and the rest are labeled as important. This bulleting came at the same time of the Black Hat conference.
During last week’s Black Hat conference, researchers Mark Dowd and Alex Sotirov discussed ways to bypass Windows Vista memory protection techniques like DEP. They use several browser functionality methods to do so. They don’t exploit any software vulnerabilities which means these flaws will be much harder for Microsoft to correct. Microsoft has yet to comment on the findings.