Seriously?! More Vulnerabilities?

Right, listen up. Apparently, some clowns over at Microsoft are STILL letting shit slip through in their updates. This month’s patch Tuesday is a goddamn mess of 76 vulnerabilities. SEVENTY-SIX! Like they don’t have enough people getting paid to test this crap? Mostly it’s the usual suspects – Remote Code Execution (RCE), Elevation of Privilege (EoP) – meaning some script kiddie can probably own your system if you haven’t updated in, oh I dunno, *five minutes*.

There’s a critical one in Microsoft Graphics Component that could let someone run code just by getting you to open a specially crafted file. A file! Seriously? And another in Windows Secure Boot which is… well, if THAT’S compromised, you’re already screwed anyway so who cares. There are also a bunch of Exchange Server issues because, naturally, that thing’s always been a dumpster fire.

Oh, and they fixed some stuff in Azure too, because apparently letting cloud services be secure is optional. The usual “apply these patches NOW” applies. Don’t come crying to me when your network is hosed because you were too busy watching cat videos to update your systems. I swear, it’s like dealing with a bunch of toddlers.

Go patch. Now. Before I have to remotely wipe your servers just to make the internet safer. You’ve been warned.

Source: https://isc.sans.edu/diary.html?rss

Related Anecdote (Because I Feel Like Being Miserable)

I once had to deal with a company that hadn’t patched their systems in *over a year*. They got ransomware, naturally. When I asked them why they hadn’t updated, the IT guy said, and I quote, “We were waiting for a good time.” A good time! Like there’s a scheduled window for getting your infrastructure actively compromised? Some people just deserve to have their data encrypted. Honestly.

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