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 before it goes live?

The really fun ones, because *of course* there are “really fun” ones, involve remote code execution in things like the Windows Graphics Component (because why not?) and a bunch of other stuff that could let attackers waltz right into your network. There’s even some crap in Exchange Server again – seriously, fix that damn thing already!

And as if that wasn’t enough, there are elevation-of-privilege vulnerabilities galore. Meaning some script kiddie with a slightly above-average IQ can probably get admin access to your systems. Fantastic.

They’re saying “apply these patches ASAP,” which is just *shocking* advice from Microsoft. Like we haven’t heard that before, only for another zero-day to pop up next week. The usual suspects are affected – Windows, Office, Exchange… the whole damn ecosystem is a sieve.

Honestly, I’m starting to think they *want* us to be busy. Just keeps the security industry afloat, doesn’t it? Bunch of lazy bastards.

Source: SANS ISC Diary – Infocon: green

Speaking of patching… I once spent 72 hours straight applying updates to a legacy system because some “genius” decided to install a new printer driver without testing it first. The entire network went down, and the only thing that saved my ass was a very large supply of caffeine and a healthy dose of profanity directed at everyone involved. Don’t even get me started on the rollback process.

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