{"id":12232,"date":"2012-03-14T10:56:39","date_gmt":"2012-03-14T10:56:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=12232"},"modified":"2012-03-14T10:56:39","modified_gmt":"2012-03-14T10:56:39","slug":"deploy-the-ms12-020-security-fix-or-face-the-consequences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=12232","title":{"rendered":"Deploy The MS12-020 Security Fix Or Face The Consequences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Security experts are urging people to deploy <a href=\"http:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/en-us\/security\/bulletin\/ms12-020\">MS12-020<\/a>, a security hotfix that was released this week.&#160; <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>This <a href=\"http:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/kb\/2671387\">security update<\/a> resolves two privately reported vulnerabilities in the Remote Desktop Protocol. The more severe of these vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution if an attacker sends a sequence of specially crafted RDP packets to an affected system.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><font style=\"background-color: #181818\" color=\"#999999\">This is the sort of vulnerability that will be seized upon very quickly by hackers because RDP is typically enabled on high value assets \u2013 servers.&#160; Deploy or be shamed like those who are still being hammered by Conficker.&#160; In my opinion, it is professional negligence not to get patched for something like this.&#160; BTW, I\u2019ve read that people expect scripted attacks for this vulnerability within 30 days.&#160; You have been warned!<\/font><\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px\" id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:4be1645a-a5da-4715-a691-51a59af98a69\" class=\"wlWriterEditableSmartContent\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Security\" rel=\"tag\">Security<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Windows\" rel=\"tag\">Windows<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Security experts are urging people to deploy MS12-020, a security hotfix that was released this week.&#160; This security update resolves two privately reported vulnerabilities in the Remote Desktop Protocol. The more severe of these vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution if an attacker sends a sequence of specially crafted RDP packets to an affected system. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=12232\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Deploy The MS12-020 Security Fix Or Face The Consequences&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[190,106],"class_list":["post-12232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security","tag-security","tag-windows"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}