A Vicious Microsoft Bug Left a Billion PCs Exposed
A Vicious Microsoft Bug Left a Billion PCs Exposed
Security, Spoken · SpokenLayer
May 15, 20175m 19s
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Show Notes
On Friday night, security researcher Tavis Ormandy of Google’s Project Zero announced on Twitter that he had found a Windows bug. Well, not just any bug. It was “crazy bad,” Ormandy wrote. “The worst Windows remote code exec in recent memory.” By Monday night, Microsoft had released an emergency patch, along with details of what the vulnerability entailed. And yes, it was every bit as scary as advertised.
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