Microsoft patches 19 critical bugs in another heavy Patch Tuesday
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Successful exploitation through a specially crafted application would give the attacker the ability to execute code on the target system with elevated privileges. Jay Goodman, strategic product marketing manager at Automox, said that on top of the run-of-the-mill stress of Patch Tuesday, the wider disruption to the industry caused by the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic would complicate matters for chief information security officers (CISOs). Most organisations had to rapidly adapt to this change by moving access to corporate assets to the VPN, but this added burden on VPNs already stretches their resources thin,” he said. After an eventful January Patch Tuesday that marked the end of support for Windows 7, the February 2020 update is another whopper, fixing close to 100 vulnerabilities. It is no longer being supported with free updates, but Microsofts final Patch Tuesday for Windows 7 fixes a major flaw in the 10-year-old operating system.
