Wednesday, February 10, 2016

All versions of Windows are affected by Critical Vulnerability.


            Microsoft's Operating System has a major share in market and the new version #Windows 10 has many new and nice features and also they are facing some hard time in reaching the billion goal. Recently there has been a news that all versions of windows are vulnerable to a vulnerability.

            All the Windows version including the latest one are affected by this critical serious vulnerability (#ms16-013). The vulnerability allows an attacker to execute the remote code by making the user clicking on the crafted journal file.

             Microsoft is about to release the security patches to other 6 vulnerabilities also along with this vulnerability. They are

For Internet Explorer 9 through 11.
For Edge browser in Windows 10.
For Windows 8.1, 10 and server 12.
For Microsoft Office and 
For Server 2012 R2 and RT 8.1, Windows 8.1, 10 and server 2012.

              In addition to these security patches Microsoft is opening up a dedicated page for posting the security updates about the Windows 10 product and the page can be viewed here.

             The security flaws has been noted privately to Microsoft and is about to release the security patches for these vulnerabilities and also it is stated that the vulnerability is not exploited in large scale.

P.S: The post is to create awareness and not to create any negative impact.

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