Microsoft just patched the critical Windows vulnerability revealed by Google last week

As promised, Microsoft today patched Windows to resolve a critical system vulnerability that Google’s security team publicized last Monday. The search giant controversially chose to acknowledge the bug before Microsoft had fixed it, claiming that hackers were already actively targeting it. As noted by ZDNet, the fix is contained in today’s release of monthly security patches.According to Microsoft’s security bulletin, any attacker who tricked a user into running a “specia