Microsoft's holiday bonus: Fixes for 40 flaws

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Microsoft's Security team brokeall sorts of records for issuing patches this year, and 2010's final Patch Tuesday was the biggest one of all, addressing 40 vulnerabilities in Windows, IE, Office, SharePoint and Exchange."Microsoft is ending this yearon a high note," says nCircle director of security operations Andrew Storms. "With a record 17 bulletins... we are getting a huge number of individual bug fixes." Five of the 17 security updates fixed long-standing flaws that could be used by attackers to plant malware on a PC by tricking Windows into thinking a malicious dynamic link library was actually a legitimate part of the operating system.