Computer Safety & News

Below are key resources documenting this recent monthly Microsoft Patch Tuesday release https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/December+Microsoft+Patch+Tuesday+Summary/23123/ http://blog.talosintelligence.com/2017/12/ms-tuesday.html https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-us/security-guidance/summary Microsoft has released its monthly set of security advisories for vulnerabilities that have been identified and addressed in various products. This month’s advisory release addresses 34 new vulnerabilities with 21 of them rated critical and 13 of them rated important. […]

The Microsoft Defender security facility was recently patched for 2 critical vulnerabilities. Details for CVE-2017-11937 and CVE-2017-11940 are noted below:  https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/microsoft-patches-two-critical/ https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2017-11937 https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2017-11940 Microsoft has released fixes for two critical flaws in its Windows Defender product which could allow attackers to completely take control of a targeted system.  CVE-2017-11937 and CVE-2017-11940 are remote code execution […]