{"id":101052,"date":"2020-01-18T18:04:28","date_gmt":"2020-01-19T02:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/u-s-government-confirms-critical-browser-zero-day-security-warning-for-windows-users"},"modified":"2020-01-18T18:04:28","modified_gmt":"2020-01-19T02:04:28","slug":"u-s-government-confirms-critical-browser-zero-day-security-warning-for-windows-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/u-s-government-confirms-critical-browser-zero-day-security-warning-for-windows-users","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Government Confirms Critical Browser Zero-Day Security Warning For Windows Users"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/u-s-government-confirms-critical-browser-zero-day-security-warning-for-windows-users.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s been a lousy week for Windows users: first, the NSA curveball crypto vulnerability and now confirmation of a zero-day vulnerability that\u2019s being actively exploited with no fix yet.<\/p>\n<p>Hot on the heels of National Security Agency (NSA) and Department of Homeland Security\u2019s Cybersecurity &amp; Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/daveywinder\/2020\/01\/15\/us-government-issues-critical-windows-10-update-now-alert\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/daveywinder\/2020\/01\/15\/us-government-issues-critical-windows-10-update-now-alert\/\">warnings for Windows 10 users<\/a> to update urgently as news of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/daveywinder\/2020\/01\/17\/windows-10-security-alert-as-alarming-curveball-threat-just-got-very-real-indeed\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/daveywinder\/2020\/01\/17\/windows-10-security-alert-as-alarming-curveball-threat-just-got-very-real-indeed\/\">curveball<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/daveywinder\/2020\/01\/14\/windows-10-extraordinarily-serious-security-warning-for-900-million-users\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/daveywinder\/2020\/01\/14\/windows-10-extraordinarily-serious-security-warning-for-900-million-users\/\">crypto vulnerability broke<\/a>, here we are again. The CISA has published a new warning for Windows users as Microsoft confirms a critical zero-day vulnerability is being actively exploited, and there\u2019s no fix available at the time of writing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s been a lousy week for Windows users: first, the NSA curveball crypto vulnerability and now confirmation of a zero-day vulnerability that\u2019s being actively exploited with no fix yet. Hot on the heels of National Security Agency (NSA) and Department of Homeland Security\u2019s Cybersecurity &amp; Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warnings for Windows 10 users to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,1490,1412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-government","category-privacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101052\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}