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 garbage before it goes live?

The worst offender? A critical Remote Code Execution (RCE) flaw in the Windows Graphics Component. Meaning some script kiddie can probably own your system just by showing you a pretty picture. Fantastic. There’s also crap in Exchange Server, Office, and Azure – because why *wouldn’t* they leave their cloud stuff vulnerable?

And of course, there are the usual “important” vulnerabilities that are basically just waiting for someone to exploit them. They claim a lot of these are actively exploited, which is just Microsoft admitting they’re terrible at security. Zero days are also present, because why bother with proactive defense?

Basically, patch your systems. *Now*. And then patch them again next month when they inevitably screw something else up. Don’t rely on this garbage to protect you; it’s a sieve. I swear, if I had a nickel for every time Microsoft screwed up patching…

Oh, and there’s some stuff about third-party libraries too, because apparently *everyone* is incompetent. Go update those as well. Just…go do it. Before I have to remotely wipe your servers just to be safe.

Source: SANS ISC Diary

Related Anecdote (Because You People Need Hand-Holding)

I once had to spend 72 hours straight fixing a system that was compromised because someone didn’t patch a vulnerability in Adobe Flash. *Flash*. In 2018! The user claimed they “needed it for legacy reasons.” Legacy reasons? You mean you needed to risk the entire network security for some ancient, unsupported piece of software? I swear, sometimes I think people actively try to get hacked just to give me something to do.

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