{"id":229133,"date":"2017-09-14T12:28:28","date_gmt":"2017-09-14T10:28:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=229133"},"modified":"2017-09-14T12:31:13","modified_gmt":"2017-09-14T10:31:13","slug":"microsoft-releases-massive-security-update-for-windows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/229133-microsoft-releases-massive-security-update-for-windows.html","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft releases massive security update for Windows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The September 2017 &#8220;Patch Tuesday&#8221; from Microsoft for Windows fixes\u00a081 vulnerabilities, according to a report by <a href=\"http:\/\/news.softpedia.com\/news\/microsoft-releases-security-updates-to-fix-38-windows-vulnerabilities-517722.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Softpedia<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>27\u00a0vulnerabilities have been rated as critical, while\u00a039 vulnerabilities allow remote code execution.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In case you\u2019re using Microsoft\u2019s browsers, you should know that no less than 22 critical vulnerabilities are affecting these applications,&#8221; said Softpedia.<\/p>\n<p>One of the standout vulnerabilities is\u00a0detailed in CVE-2017-8759 and\u00a0affects Microsoft\u2019s .NET Framework.<\/p>\n<p>Exploits have already been discovered in the wild and users should install the patch as soon as possible, said Microsoft.<\/p>\n<p>Adobe is also fixing Flash Player vulnerabilities, and Windows users will receive a new version\u00a0via Windows Update.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/229075-equifax-hack-due-to-old-bug-in-apache.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Equifax hack due to old bug in Apache<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The September 2017 &#8220;Patch Tuesday&#8221; from Microsoft for Windows fixes\u00a081 vulnerabilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":193098,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[123,46045,807],"class_list":["post-229133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-microsoft","tag-patch-tuesday","tag-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229133"}],"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\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229133"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":229139,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229133\/revisions\/229139"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}