Seriously, More of *This* Shit?
Right, so Microsoft had another “Patch Tuesday.” Big fucking deal. Turns out, as if anyone’s surprised, the vast majority of these patches – like 60% of ’em this month – are fixing privilege escalation vulnerabilities. Yeah, that’s right. Some script kiddie with half a brain can probably get root access on your system if you don’t slap these updates on IMMEDIATELY.
We’re talking about flaws in stuff like the Windows Core Networking component (because *of course* it is), and even some in the goddamn graphics components. It’s always something fundamental, isn’t it? Like they deliberately build backdoors then pretend to be surprised when someone finds them.
There’s a handful of Remote Code Execution (RCE) issues too, which are bad enough, but privilege escalation is the real pain in the ass. It means an attacker doesn’t need some fancy exploit; they just need to find a way *in* and then…boom…they own the place. And you know what? They’re probably already scanning for these right now.
So, yeah. Patch your systems. Now. Don’t whine to me when you get ransomware because you were too busy “prioritizing” other things. Just patch it. I swear, dealing with this garbage is why I drink.
Related Anecdote: I once had a sysadmin tell me they were “waiting for user impact analysis” before patching a critical vulnerability. I told him the user impact would be *slightly less* catastrophic than having their entire database encrypted. He still waited. They got pwned. Don’t be that guy.
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