Windows XP and other previous versions of Windows in danger: Microsoft releases an urgent patch to prevent another Wannacry
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If you still have a copy of Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 on your computer, Microsoft has an important notice in the form of an urgent update and security. An update that must also be done manually. On _Patch Tuesday_ Microsoft has incidentally started shipping a patch that also affects other versions such as Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2.
Despite being versions no longer supported by Microsoft, it has been a reason of extraordinary and urgent need (such as decree laws) that have motivated the deployment of this new patch with which we try to avoid an error that can put our teams at risk.
A stall failure
And the fact is that the discovered error could remotely cause a blockage in the RDP Service, a risk that Microsoft places at the same height as the remembered Wannacry (and we already know what happened in that case). This is part of the notice generated by Microsoft in its Security Center:
A bug that could allow an attacker to send a request to target Remote Desktop systems via RDP and thus execute code remotely on the system. This is a really serious vulnerability, since it does not require user intervention, a threat that could also spread from one computer to another like Wildfire.
This vulnerability affects older versions of Windows, leaving the most current versions, that is, Windows 8.1 or 10, free from the threat. If you use Windows XP and Server 2003, here you can download the patch manually. In the case of Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2 the patch arrives via Patch Tuesday.
You have to remember that back in the day Windows XP was already patched against Wannacry. An operating system that despite being history and not having support, continues to be tremendously used in certain environments, both personal and business (there are ATMs working on this version of Windows), which alerts to the importance that it still has.
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