{"id":306170,"date":"2019-05-15T08:09:40","date_gmt":"2019-05-15T06:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=306170"},"modified":"2019-05-15T08:10:02","modified_gmt":"2019-05-15T06:10:02","slug":"critical-security-flaw-in-windows-7-and-windows-xp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/306170-critical-security-flaw-in-windows-7-and-windows-xp.html","title":{"rendered":"Critical security flaw in Windows 7 and Windows XP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/msrc\/2019\/05\/14\/prevent-a-worm-by-updating-remote-desktop-services-cve-2019-0708\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>announced<\/strong><\/a> that it has issued a patch for a major security flaw in Windows XP and Windows 7.<\/p>\n<p>The company urged users to download the latest Windows update for the affected systems, which fixes a critical remote code execution vulnerability in the Remote Desktop Services process.<\/p>\n<p>Affected versions of the operating system include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Windows XP<\/li>\n<li>Windows 7<\/li>\n<li>Windows Server 2003<\/li>\n<li>Windows Server 2008 R2<\/li>\n<li>Windows Server 2008<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Microsoft said the vulnerability is &#8220;wormable&#8221;, which means attackers could use it to spread malware across devices in a similar manner to the way WannaCry spread in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;While we have observed no exploitation of this vulnerability, it is highly likely that malicious actors will write an exploit for this vulnerability and incorporate it into their malware,&#8221; Microsoft said.<\/p>\n<p>Customers who use an in-support version of Windows such as Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 will receive the update if they have automatic updates enabled, while Windows XP users can download fixes from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.catalog.update.microsoft.com\/search.aspx?q=4500331&amp;ranMID=24542&amp;ranEAID=nOD\/rLJHOac&amp;ranSiteID=nOD_rLJHOac-YivSnwrBNbyyi4x_xkZkgA&amp;epi=nOD_rLJHOac-YivSnwrBNbyyi4x_xkZkgA&amp;irgwc=1&amp;OCID=AID681541_aff_7593_1243925&amp;tduid=(ir__9nc0vpu9l0kfrksk0hnrewwq9n2xmclyqxobtkma00)(7593)(1243925)(nOD_rLJHOac-YivSnwrBNbyyi4x_xkZkgA)()&amp;irclickid=_9nc0vpu9l0kfrksk0hnrewwq9n2xmclyqxobtkma00\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Microsoft&#8217;s Update Catalogue<\/strong><\/a> or upgrade their version of Windows.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Customers running Windows 8 and Windows 10 are not affected by this vulnerability, and it is no coincidence that later versions of Windows are unaffected,&#8221; the company said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Microsoft invests heavily in strengthening the security of its products, often through major architectural improvements that are not possible to backport to earlier versions of Windows.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/306162-whatsapp-hack-aided-by-spyware.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">WhatsApp hack aided by spyware<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft announced that it has patched a major security flaw in Windows XP and Windows 7.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341028,"featured_media":263965,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[123,59016,5214,4806],"class_list":["post-306170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-microsoft","tag-patch","tag-windows-7","tag-windows-xp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306170"}],"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\/341028"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}