An update to Internet Explorer, for installation on PCs running Windows 7 Service Pack 1 or Windows 8.x, will introduce a new security feature called out-of-date ActiveX control blocking.

Early last week, Oracle released a patch for CVE-2013-0422, which affected all versions of Java 7 prior to Update 11. A day later, Microsoft fixed a critical vulnerability in versions 6, 7, and 8 ...