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?

The worst offender? A critical Remote Code Execution (RCE) bug 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 a bunch of Elevation of Privilege stuff, which basically means if someone *already* has access to your machine, they get even MORE access. Groundbreaking security work there, Microsoft.

And it’s not just Windows. Exchange is getting hammered again (surprise, surprise), and Office isn’t exactly pristine either. They are patching a whole load of stuff in those too.

Basically, if you run any Microsoft product, PATCH YOUR SHIT NOW. Don’t wait. Don’t think about it. Just do it before some ransomware-slinging moron decides to use this against you. I swear, managing these systems is like trying to herd cats while simultaneously defusing a bomb.

Oh, and they are still going on about the CVEs from last month too, so if you haven’t applied those yet? You deserve whatever happens to you.

Source: SANS ISC Diary

Look, I once had to roll back a patch on a production server at 3 AM because it bricked the entire authentication system. The “urgent” patch was released without proper testing, naturally. Spent the next eight hours rebuilding from backups and listening to my boss whine about uptime metrics. Don’t be *that* guy. Patch responsibly, or just go work at a coffee shop.

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