Share to linkedinThe United States Department of Homeland Security's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has gone public with a warning to Microsoft Windows users regarding a critical security vulnerability. By issuing the"update now" warning, CISA has joined the likes of Microsoft itself and the National Security Agency in warning Windows users of the danger from the BlueKeep vulnerability.
that"it's now a race against the clock by cyber criminals which makes this vulnerability a ticking cyber bomb." Balmas also predicted that it will only be"a matter of weeks" before attackers started exploiting BlueKeep.appears to confirm this, stating that it has,"coordinated with external stakeholders and determined that Windows 2000 is vulnerable to BlueKeep.
The U.S. National Security Agency had issued a warning of the BlueKeep vulnerability on June 4. The NSA urged"Microsoft Windows administrators and users to ensure they are using a patched and updated system in the face of growing threat." Microsoft itself has twice now published warnings about
We found that 2% of the 4 million companies we'd modelled were open to this vulnerability earlier this month happygeek.
“Windows 8 and Windows 10 users are not impacted by this vulnerability” great clickbait title though.
MS Windows has always sucked with the blue screen of death & my current Windows 10 crashed last year & I haven’t bothered using that computer because Microsoft wants $181 to fix their own software they don’t provide startup disks for anymore! Lol. Ridiculous. 🌹🇨🇦😆