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? Mostly remote code execution and privilege escalation, meaning some script kiddie can probably own your system from the internet if you haven’t patched *immediately*.

There’s a particularly nasty one in Microsoft Graphics Component – because of course there is. It lets attackers run code when you open a specially crafted image file. Seriously? An IMAGE FILE?! What are we, back in 2003? And another one in Windows Point to Point Protocol (PPP) that could let someone steal your credentials. PPP! Who even *uses* PPP anymore?!

Oh, and don’t forget the usual suspects: Exchange Server getting hammered again. It’s like they actively *want* people to switch to something else. The ISC diary folks are saying prioritize these, which is good advice because frankly, if you’re running unpatched Exchange, you deserve whatever happens.

Basically, update your systems. Now. Before some idiot exploits this garbage and ruins your week. And maybe yell at Microsoft for me. They need it.

Source: SANS ISC Diary – Because someone has to keep track of Microsoft’s failures

Anecdote: I once had a sysadmin tell me they were “waiting for the dust to settle” before patching a critical vulnerability. The dust settled when their entire network was encrypted with ransomware. Seriously, people. Patch. Your. Shit.

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