Microsoft’s “Patch Tuesday” this month released twelve security updates, eight of them critical. Exploits for the vulnerabilities appeared the very next day. However, this was not the end of the bad news for Microsoft this month – it was also revealed that “Windows Genuine Advantage” (WGA)reports back to Microsoft daily, raising security and privacy issues. Observers made comparisons between the definition of spyware and the actions of WGA, and found no difference. A new version of Windows Genuine Advantage incorrectly labeled legal software as pirated in some cases.
