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Why Microsoft’s BlueKeep Bug Hasn’t Wreaked Havoc—Yet

Why Microsoft’s BlueKeep Bug Hasn’t Wreaked Havoc—Yet

Why Microsoft’s BlueKeep Bug Hasn’t Wreaked Havoc—Yet

Security, Spoken · SpokenLayer

July 22, 20198m 40s

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When news appeared in May of the security vulnerability in Windows that would come to be known as BlueKeep, security researchers almost immediately cautioned that the flaw looked like the central ingredient for a destructive worm sure to rampage through the internet. Microsoft issued a series of stark warnings to patch the flaw, which persisted in roughly a million computers. Even the NSA took the rare step of noting the bug's severity.

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