Patch Tuesday, January 2020 Edition

Patch Tuesday, January 2020 Edition

  • Microsoft today released updates to plug 50 security holes in various flavors of Windows and related software.
  • The patch batch includes a fix for a flaw in Windows 10 and server equivalents of this operating system that prompted an unprecedented public warning from the U.S. National Security Agency.
  • An advisory (PDF) released today by the NSA says the flaw may have far more wide-ranging security implications, noting that the “exploitation of the vulnerability allows attackers to defeat trusted network connections and deliver executable code while appearing as legitimately trusted entities.”

    KrebsonSecurity | January 14, 2020