Microsoft Fixed The Shadow Brokers' Bugs In Silent March Update

[Lucian Armasu]

Microsoft announced that most of the Windows vulnerabilities revealed by The Shadow Brokers on Friday had already been fixed. This has raised some suspicions about whether or not someone tipped off the company about those vulnerabilities.

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[why_wolf]

What was more alarming was that several security researches were going around claiming the exploits still worked against Windows, hence why Microsoft published the blog post. Turns out several researches and tech blogs were doing their testing on systems that we not up to date with all patches. Which is kind of mind blowing because updating your system is the 1st step in securing your system against attacks. https://arstechnica.com/security/2017/04/purported-shadow-brokers-0days-were-in-fact-killed-by-mysterious-patch/

 

[Jeff Fx]

It's a little weird reading about the "Shadow Brokers" as I play a Mass Effect game.

 

[alextheblue]

What was more alarming was that several security researches were going around claiming the exploits still worked against Windows, hence why Microsoft published the blog post. Turns out several researches and tech blogs were doing their testing on systems that we not up to date with all patches. Which is kind of mind blowing because updating your system is the 1st step in securing your system against attacks. https://arstechnica.com/security/2017/04/purported-shadow-brokers-0days-were-in-fact-killed-by-mysterious-patch/

Wouldn't be the first time a "security researcher" published false information about vulnerabilities. For every talented, thorough security researcher there's a few hacks.

 

[LORD_ORION]

Remember, you should not be affraid to do business with US cloud based companies. 😉

LOL

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

Sure they fixed them.