Microsoft will release this coming Tuesday the 13th, on its usual schedule (second Tuesday of every month), the monthly updates for its different software products. The batch will contain 6 updates, one of which has the highest severity rating – critical – belonging to the Windows operating system.

Last week Adobe released an update for Adobe Flash player. This latest version, 11.1.102.62, patches vulnerabilities that, if exploited, could allow an attacker to take control of the affected system.

Last week as well Google released Chrome 17.0.963.65, to address multiple vulnerabilities in the web browser. Notice that Flash in Chrome is embedded in the browser, so to bring Flash to its latest version all you have to do is update Chrome to the latest version.

Computers with their software up to date are the least likely to be affected by malicious attacks.