{"id":114117,"date":"2014-11-12T16:57:48","date_gmt":"2014-11-12T14:57:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=114117"},"modified":"2014-11-12T17:00:11","modified_gmt":"2014-11-12T15:00:11","slug":"microsoft-fixes-19-year-old-windows-bug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/114117-microsoft-fixes-19-year-old-windows-bug.html","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft fixes 19-year-old Windows bug"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft Corp issued patches on Tuesday to fix a bug in its Windows operating system that remained undiscovered for 19 years.<\/p>\n<p>The bug, which is present in every version of Microsoft Windows from Windows 95 onward, allows an attacker to remotely take over and control a computer.<\/p>\n<p>IBM Corp&#8217;s cybersecurity research team discovered the bug in May, describing it as a &#8220;significant vulnerability&#8221; in the operating system.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The buggy code is at least 19 years old and has been remotely exploitable for the past 18 years,&#8221; IBM X-Force research team said in its blog on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More Microsoft news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/smartphones\/113907-microsoft-unveils-new-lumia-smartphone-without-nokia-branding.html\">Microsoft unveils new Lumia smartphone without Nokia branding<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/113701-microsoft-office-free-for-ipad-android-tablets.html\">Free Microsoft Office editing on iOS, Android<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/quick-news\/113463-microsoft-teams-up-with-dropbox.html\">Microsoft teams up with Dropbox<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft Corp issued patches on Tuesday to fix a bug in its Windows operating system that remained undiscovered for 19 years<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":340871,"featured_media":110808,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[36,123,807],"class_list":["post-114117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-active","tag-microsoft","tag-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114117"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/340871"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}