{"id":111487,"date":"2020-08-17T13:58:57","date_gmt":"2020-08-17T20:58:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/microsoft-put-off-fixing-zero-day-for-2-years"},"modified":"2020-08-17T13:58:57","modified_gmt":"2020-08-17T20:58:57","slug":"microsoft-put-off-fixing-zero-day-for-2-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/microsoft-put-off-fixing-zero-day-for-2-years","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Put Off Fixing Zero Day for 2 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/microsoft-put-off-fixing-zero-day-for-2-years.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Microsoft Put Off Fixing Zero Day for 2 Years \u2014 Krebs on Security.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A security flaw in the way <strong>Microsoft Windows<\/strong> guards users against malicious files was actively exploited in malware attacks for two years before last week, when Microsoft finally issued a software update to correct the problem.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/microsoft-put-off-fixing-zero-day-for-2-years2.jpg\" style=\"display:none;\" alt=\"\" width=\"594\" height=\"393\"   \/><\/p>\n<p>One of the 120 security holes <a href=\"https:\/\/krebsonsecurity.com\/2020\/08\/microsoft-patch-tuesday-august-2020-edition\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Microsoft fixed on Aug. 11\u2019s Patch Tuesday<\/a> was <a href=\"https:\/\/portal.msrc.microsoft.com\/en-US\/security-guidance\/advisory\/CVE-2020-1464\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CVE-2020\u20131464<\/a>, a problem with the way every supported version of Windows validates digital signatures for computer programs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft Put Off Fixing Zero Day for 2 Years \u2014 Krebs on Security. A security flaw in the way Microsoft Windows guards users against malicious files was actively exploited in malware attacks for two years before last week, when Microsoft finally issued a software update to correct the problem. One of the 120 security holes [\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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111487","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=111487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111487\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}