{"id":316375,"date":"2019-08-14T08:19:08","date_gmt":"2019-08-14T06:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=316375"},"modified":"2019-08-14T08:19:37","modified_gmt":"2019-08-14T06:19:37","slug":"dangerous-security-flaws-in-windows-10-update-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/316375-dangerous-security-flaws-in-windows-10-update-now.html","title":{"rendered":"Dangerous security flaws in Windows 10 &#8211; Update now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A number of security vulnerabilities have been discovered in Windows 10. The security flaws are similar to those\u00a0exploited by the self-replicating WannaCry ransomware in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>The four exploits discovered by Microsoft are &#8220;wormable&#8221;, which means that they can spread malware to other vulnerable devices without any user action.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft published a <a href=\"https:\/\/msrc-blog.microsoft.com\/2019\/08\/13\/patch-new-wormable-vulnerabilities-in-remote-desktop-services-cve-2019-1181-1182\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>blog post<\/strong><\/a> detailing the security flaws, which lie within its Remote Desktop Services (RDS) code.<\/p>\n<p>Affected operating system versions include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Windows 7 Service Pack 1<\/li>\n<li>Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1<\/li>\n<li>Windows Server 2012<\/li>\n<li>Windows Server 2012 R2 Service Pack 1<\/li>\n<li>Windows 8.1<\/li>\n<li>All versions of Windows 10<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Microsoft has released patches to address the security vulnerabilities and urged users to update their systems as quickly as possible.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is important that affected systems are patched as quickly as possible because of the elevated risks associated with wormable vulnerabilities like these,&#8221; the company said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Customers who have automatic updates enabled are automatically protected by these fixes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/316311-south-africa-hit-by-north-korea-in-cyberattacks-to-raise-money-for-weapons.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">South Africa hit by North Korea in cyberattacks to raise money for weapons<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A number of security vulnerabilities have been discovered in Windows 10.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341028,"featured_media":174478,"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":[123,60461,48347,26970],"class_list":["post-316375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-microsoft","tag-rds","tag-security-flaws","tag-windows-10"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316375"}],"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=316375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}