{"id":237648,"date":"2017-11-15T11:50:58","date_gmt":"2017-11-15T09:50:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=237648"},"modified":"2017-11-15T11:52:37","modified_gmt":"2017-11-15T09:52:37","slug":"microsoft-releases-53-security-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/237648-microsoft-releases-53-security-updates.html","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft releases 53 security updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has initiated it latest\u00a0Patch Tuesday rollout, which brings fixes for 53 security vulnerabilities.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/news.softpedia.com\/news\/microsoft-releases-updates-for-53-security-vulnerabilities-in-its-software-518544.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Softpedia<\/strong><\/a>, 23 of these flaws allowed for remote code execution.<\/p>\n<p>None of the critical updates were for Windows, but there were four\u00a0vulnerabilities addressed in the operating system.<\/p>\n<p>Internet Explorer and Microsoft Edge received &#8220;important&#8221; fixes &#8211; with Microsoft stating that no attacks on the browsers due to the vulnerabilities have been reported as yet.<\/p>\n<p>Updates were also released for Office users, which the report stated must be downloaded as soon as possible as they are critical.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/237202-how-hijackers-steal-passwords.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">How hijackers steal passwords<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has initiated it latest\u00a0Patch Tuesday rollout.<\/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":[123,807],"class_list":["post-237648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-microsoft","tag-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237648"}],"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=237648"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":237652,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237648\/revisions\/237652"}],"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=237648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}