{"id":3457,"date":"2017-05-09T13:59:16","date_gmt":"2017-05-09T20:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kmtechblog.com\/?p=3457"},"modified":"2017-05-09T13:59:16","modified_gmt":"2017-05-09T20:59:16","slug":"microsoft-patched-major-windows-defender-bug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/?p=3457","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft has patched a major Windows Defender bug"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has rolled out an emergency update for machines running Windows 7, 8.1, RT and 10 to patch a nasty\u00a0bug that was uncovered by Google Project Zero researchers Natalie Silvanovich and Tavis Ormandy over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>According to the Project Zero team, the bug, which is present in the Windows Defender anti-malware software (ironic, right?), could\u00a0be exploited to\u00a0execute malicious code included in an email, web page or instant message, and has the potential\u00a0to become \u201cwormable.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Attack works against a default install, don&#39;t need to be on the same LAN, and it&#39;s wormable. \ud83d\udd25<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Tavis Ormandy (@taviso) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/taviso\/status\/860681252034142208?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 6, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>A patch was issued within 48-hours<\/h3>\n<p>The folks over at Microsoft\u2019s Security Response Center issued a patch within 48-hours \u2014 and installing it couldn\u2019t be easier. All you have to do is open up Windows Update, then hit the <em>Update<\/em> button next to Windows Defender (1.1.13704.0).<\/p>\n<p>Good work, Microsoft!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has rolled out an emergency update for machines running Windows 7, 8.1, RT and 10 to patch a nasty\u00a0bug that was uncovered by Google Project Zero researchers Natalie Silvanovich and Tavis Ormandy over the weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3458,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-computers","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}