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SANS ISC Diary – Ugh, Another Day, Another Clusterfuck

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 worst offender? A critical Remote Code Execution (RCE) bug in the Windows Graphics Component. Yeah, you read that right. RCE. Meaning some script kiddie with a slightly-above-average understanding of PowerShell can probably own your system. Fantastic.

There’s also a bunch of Elevation of Privilege stuff, which is just as bad if someone *already* has a foothold on your network. And don’t even get me started on the SMB vulnerabilities – because apparently we haven’t suffered enough from those already.

Oh, and there’s some crap in Outlook too, naturally. Because why wouldn’t there be? The usual suspects are getting hammered, so if you run any of this Microsoft garbage, PATCH IT. Now. Before I have to personally come over and rewrite your entire infrastructure.

Honestly, it’s just… exhausting. They release a patch, another vulnerability pops up five minutes later. It’s an endless cycle of fixing their mistakes. Don’t bother asking me for details; go read the Microsoft Security Update Guide yourself. I’m not your tech support.


Related Anecdote: Back in ’08, had a client who thought “rebooting” was optional maintenance. Found out *after* their entire domain got pwned by Conficker. Spent three days rebuilding everything from scratch while they whined about lost productivity. Seriously, people… just patch your systems! It’s not rocket science.

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