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NSA Discloses Severe Vulnerability in Windows OS - Universality - 01-17-2020
The NSA has released an official, public statement urging everyone to update their Windows devices as soon as possible. A vulnerability has been identified (CVE-2020-0601) in the Windows that can allows hackers to spoof trusted identities (as software companies, service providers, etc) in Windows' public key infrastructure (PKI) to gain the user's trust to potentially exploit them.
This vulnerability is believed to be present in over 900 million computers when the vulnerability was discovered. The NSA and US Department of Defense urges everyone on Windows 10 to update their computer IMMEDIATELY, as a fix for the exploit has already been released. Again, failing to update now will put your machine at extreme risk in the future.
• To update, click the windows logo in the bottom left, click the cog, go to "update and security" and press "check for updates."
Official NSA documents:
https://media.defense.gov/2020/Jan/14/2002234275/-1/-1/0/CSA-WINDOWS-10-CRYPT-LIB-20190114.PDF
https://www.nsa.gov/News-Features/News-Stories/Article-View/Article/2056772/a-very-important-patch-tuesday/
Read more at:
https://www.wired.com/story/nsa-windows-10-vulnerability-disclosure/
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-51106356
RE: NSA Discloses Severe Vulnerability in Windows OS - critikal17 - 01-17-2020
Wow, a very recent vulnerability, looks like I've got to update.
Thanks for informing us.
RE: NSA Discloses Severe Vulnerability in Windows OS - mothered - 01-17-2020
This comes as no surprise.
I exploit on a daily basis and can confidently say, that vulnerabilities exist In "every" entity.
It's just a matter of Identifying them.
RE: NSA Discloses Severe Vulnerability in Windows OS - Yaiba - 01-18-2020
Yeah I found out about this in some of my discord servers, this news is very important to know about. As mothered said this most probably isn’t the only major invulnerability and due to this more updates like this will most likely be needed. Thanks for the info tho
RE: NSA Discloses Severe Vulnerability in Windows OS - dowjones - 06-19-2020
hmmm...that a very serious issue of raven concern
RE: NSA Discloses Severe Vulnerability in Windows OS - doperdoped - 10-09-2020
Is another wannacry in making now?
RE: NSA Discloses Severe Vulnerability in Windows OS - EdinStops - 02-03-2021
Let's wait for an update, they always do this, do another stupid update
RE: NSA Discloses Severe Vulnerability in Windows OS - beatrixena11 - 03-08-2021
thanks for share